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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 106 · permalink

Garden

34:37–35:09 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:4134:41Frame at 34:5034:50Frame at 34:5834:58Frame at 35:0535:05

Play from 34:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 296–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • gardener (named at t:34:41): man wearing a cap, work shirt, and apron, holding a small object visible, audible
  • man in a police-style uniform with cap and badge visible, audible
  • man in a suit, tie, and fedora visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man in work clothes gestures while speaking to the other two men. [frame:1]
Also said
“Who is Carlotta Montaigne?” 34:50 · “You mind if we take a look inside?” 35:03
Seen
cap [frame:1], apron [frame:1], police-style uniform [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: suspicion, identity verification, unauthorized entry; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s film noir

Three men stand outdoors in a garden-like setting: one in work clothes and a cap, one in a police-style uniform, and one in a suit and fedora. They converse, with the man in work clothes claiming to be the gardener and the man in the suit asking about residents and requesting entry to the house.

“Watch him, he's got a knife.” 34:37 · “I'm the gardener.” 34:41 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 34:41 (passage 34:37–35:09); US record: No renewal found

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