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Meet John Doe · Beat 88 · permalink

Field

28:15–28:28 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:1728:17Frame at 28:2128:21Frame at 28:2628:26

Play from 28:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 253–255. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • wearing dark uniform with D.B. Norton Motor Corps insignia visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a D.B. Norton Motor Corps uniform is shown in close-up. [frame:1]
  • Motorcyclists are seen riding across a field. [frame:2]
  • Motorcyclists continue riding across the field. [frame:3]
Seen
D.B. Norton Motor Corps insignia, motorcycles, motorcycles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: military or organized group, departure, silence; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of movement, close-up on insignia

A person wearing a D.B. Norton Motor Corps uniform is shown in close-up, followed by wide shots of motorcyclists on a field. A voice says 'Shh' and 'I'm going to go.'

“Shh.” 28:19 · “I'm going to go.” 28:20 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 28:17 (passage 28:15–28:28); US record: No renewal found

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