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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 112 · permalink

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36:43–37:04 Registered 1947

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

Frame at 36:4536:45Frame at 36:4836:48Frame at 36:5236:52Frame at 37:0037:00

Play from 36:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 44 · shots 314–317. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:3, frame:4
People
  • hands visible, handling a ring and box; no face or clothing details visible
  • man wearing a cap, apron, and gloves; holding a small box; appears middle-aged visible
  • man wearing a fedora and suit; standing at a window; gesturing with both hands visible
Seen happening
  • A person's hands open a small box and lift a ring from it. [frame:1]
  • The person's hands place the ring back into the box. [frame:2]
  • A man in an apron and cap holds the box with both hands, looking upward. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat and suit stands at a window, gesturing outward with both arms. [frame:4]
Seen
ring [frame:1], small box [frame:1], apron [frame:3], cap [frame:3], fedora [frame:4], window with bars [frame:4], tree trunk [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful or mysterious; themes: mystery, secret exchange, urban setting; style notes: close-up on hands and ring, medium shot of man in apron, wide shot of man at window; high-contrast black and white lighting; classic film noir framing

A person handles a ring in a box, then a man in an apron holds the box while another man in a hat gestures from a window. No dialogue is present in this beat.

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 36:45 (passage 36:43–37:04); US record: No renewal found

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