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Meet John Doe · Beat 9 · permalink

Newsroom

1:33–1:47 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:401:40Frame at 1:471:47

Play from 1:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 9–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in vest and shirt, middle-aged, seated at desk visible
  • person adjusting sign, partially visible, wearing dark clothing visible
  • older man with glasses, seated at desk visible
  • man in suit and tie, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A person adjusts a sign reading 'THE NEW BULLETIN'. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest sits at a desk holding a microphone in a busy newsroom. [frame:2]
Seen
sign, microphone, desk, clock
On screen
THE NEW BULLETIN STREAMLINED FOR STREAMLINING
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: busy and focused; themes: newsroom activity, media production; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on central figure, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man in a vest sits at a desk in a busy newsroom, holding a microphone, while another person adjusts a sign reading 'THE NEW BULLETIN'. The setting is an indoor newsroom with multiple people working at desks.

“I” 1:45 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 1:40 (passage 1:33–1:47); US record: No renewal found

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