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Meet John Doe · Beat 50 · permalink

Private office

15:50–16:07 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:5515:55Frame at 16:0316:03

Play from 15:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 140–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a shirt and tie, holding a hat, standing visible
  • man in a suit, gesturing with hands visible
  • man in a shirt, standing behind p2 visible
  • woman in dark dress, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, standing to right visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the shirt and tie is visible holding a hat. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Me and a friend of mine. He's outside.” 15:59 · “He's perfect. A baseball player. What could be more American?” 16:04
Seen
hat, suit, shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational and slightly tense; themes: identity, American symbolism, social interaction; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal framing

A man in a shirt and tie stands with others in a room, discussing family and travel. A man in a suit gestures while speaking, and another man in a shirt is visible behind him.

“How about family? Got me family?” 15:53 · “No.” 15:55 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 15:55 (passage 15:50–16:07); US record: No renewal found

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