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26:58–27:04 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0127:01

Play from 26:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 240–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A newspaper headline is displayed on screen. [frame:1]
Seen
newspaper headline
On screen
JOHN DOE AGAINST CORRUPT LOCAL POLITICS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: corruption, media, public protest; style notes: High-contrast lighting with a spotlight isolating text on a dark field; typographic focus suggests importance of the headline.

A newspaper headline reading 'JOHN DOE AGAINST CORRUPT LOCAL POLITICS' is shown. The text is partially obscured and illuminated by a spotlight against a dark 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 27:01 (passage 26:58–27:04); US record: No renewal found

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