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Meet John Doe · Beat 77 · permalink

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25:47–25:48 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 25:4725:47

Play from 25:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 226–226. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit, smiling slightly, standing on the right visible
  • man wearing a fedora and light-colored suit with bow tie, wide-eyed expression, center foreground visible
  • man wearing a fedora, partially visible behind p2 on the left visible
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], wooden beams [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or surprised; style notes: black-and-white medium close-up, high contrast lighting, studio set with visible ceiling structure

Three men in hats and suits are shown in a medium close-up; one looks surprised while another smiles. The setting appears to be an interior space with wooden beams visible above.

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 25:47 (passage 25:47–25:48); US record: No renewal found

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