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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 10 · permalink

Jail

3:36–3:52 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:403:40Frame at 3:483:48

Play from 3:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 26–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark hat and dark patterned top visible
  • man in a striped shirt, behind bars, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • man in a guard’s uniform with a cap visible
Seen happening
  • A man behind bars speaks to a woman while a guard watches. [frame:1]
  • The man continues speaking, holding a cigarette. [frame:2]
Also said
“Dark silken hair.” 3:39 · “Kind of a gal that make you want to give away your last shirt.” 3:41
Seen
jail bars, cigarette, guard uniform, dark hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: romantic description, incarceration, interrogation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a striped shirt stands behind bars speaking to a woman in a dark hat, while a uniformed guard looks on. The transcript includes a description of the woman and questions about how the man met her.

“Skin like smooth satin.” 3:36 · “Beautiful blue eyes.” 3:38 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 My Favorite Brunette (1947) at 3:40 (passage 3:36–3:52); US record: No renewal found

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