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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 111 · permalink

Sidewalk

36:26–36:43 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 36:2836:28Frame at 36:3536:35Frame at 36:4136:41

Play from 36:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 311–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, fedora, bow tie, medium build visible, audible
  • man in cap, apron, overalls, younger, slight build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit points at a stone wall while standing on a stone path. [frame:1]
  • Man in suit grabs man in cap by the arm and speaks to him. [frame:2]
  • Man in suit continues speaking to man in cap, who looks up at him. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why does he want to search the house? He's looking for clues. Clues, huh? He wants a clue to Carlotta's whereabouts. See that he finds one. This one.” 36:37
Seen
stone wall, stone steps, fedora hat, bow tie, cap, apron
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, mystery, noir intrigue; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium close-ups, static camera, dramatic lighting emphasizing shadows

Two men in hats converse outside a stone building at night; one gestures toward a wall while the other listens. The dialogue suggests they are discussing someone returning to search for clues about a person named Carlotta.

“Well, you know what to do. Sure I know what to do. Not that, you fool.” 36:30 · “Why did he come back?” 36:36 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 36:28 (passage 36:26–36:43); US record: No renewal found

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