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Meet John Doe · Beat 65 · permalink

Bedroom

21:32–21:58 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3321:33Frame at 21:4221:42Frame at 21:4621:46Frame at 21:5421:54

Play from 21:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 191–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a hat, dark coat, and collared shirt, middle-aged, mustache visible, audible
  • man wearing a suit, bow tie, and fedora, standing, middle-aged visible
  • man lying in bed, wearing a hat, partially visible visible
Also said
“Yes, sir. A room with steam heat.” 21:42 · “Hey, stop worrying, Colonel. 50 bucks ain't gonna ruin me.” 21:50
Seen
bed, hat, suit, bow tie, curtains, rug
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly cynical; themes: material comfort, social mobility, money and identity; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set design

A man in a hat and coat speaks in a room while another man in a suit stands nearby; a third man is seen in bed. The dialogue discusses money, comfort, and bank accounts.

“Boy, what that kind of food does to your system.” 21:32 · “The next thing the dope wants is a room.” 21:40 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 21:33 (passage 21:32–21:58); US record: No renewal found

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