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Meet John Doe · Beat 5 · permalink

Hospital

1:09–1:23 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:121:12Frame at 1:201:20

Play from 1:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 4 · shots 4–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hospital (hospital, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light shirt and trousers, holding a hat, standing beside a sign visible
  • infant lying in crib, wrapped in white cloth visible
  • infant lying in crib, wrapped in white cloth visible
Seen happening
  • Babies are lying in cribs in a hospital setting. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside a stone sign reading 'EST 1862' and 'BULLER'. [frame:2]
Seen
cribs, stone sign with engraved text, hat
On screen
{'frame': 2, 'value': 'EST 1862\nBULLER\nfree pre\nmeans\nfree peo'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to somber; themes: institutional care, public signage, infancy; style notes: black-and-white, static framing, medium shots, high-contrast lighting

A man stands beside a stone sign reading 'EST 1862' and 'BULLER' while babies lie in cribs in another shot. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Oh, my God.” 1:09 · “Yeah!” 1:15 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Meet John Doe (1941) at 1:12 (passage 1:09–1:23); US record: No renewal found

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