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Meet John Doe · Beat 54 · permalink

Restaurant

17:14–17:16 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1517:15

Play from 17:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 153–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, seated, raising a glass visible
  • man with dark hair and jacket, seated, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man raises a glass to drink while seated at a table. [frame:1]
Seen
glass, table with plates and bowls, fedora hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: social interaction, dining; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, focused on character interaction

Two men sit at a table with food; one raises a glass to drink while the other watches. The setting appears to be an indoor dining area with dim lighting and a window in the background.

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 17:15 (passage 17:14–17:16); US record: No renewal found

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