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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 12 · permalink

Photography studio

4:09–4:30 Registered 1947

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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:124:12Frame at 4:194:19Frame at 4:244:24Frame at 4:274:27

Play from 4:09 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 6 · shots 29–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
photography_studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Ronnie (named at t:4:19): man in light-colored suit, standing, holding a camera visible
  • woman seated, dark dress, holding a baby visible
  • baby held by woman visible
Seen happening
  • Exterior shot of a building with a sign reading 'House of Lee' and people walking on the sidewalk. [frame:1]
  • Exterior shot of a brick building with a sign reading 'Ronnie's Baby Photography'. [frame:2]
  • Ronnie stands in a photography studio with a woman and a baby, holding a camera. [frame:3]
  • Ronnie gestures while standing in the studio with the woman and baby. [frame:4]
Seen
sign reading 'House of Lee', sign reading 'Ronnie's Baby Photography', camera, studio lights, baby
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted frustration; themes: photography, parenting, comedy; style notes: black-and-white studio lighting, medium shots, exterior establishing shots

A photographer named Ronnie works in a studio with a woman and a baby, while exterior shots show his studio building and a street scene. The transcript reveals he is trying to make a baby smile after two hours of effort.

“Ronnie was the name. Ronnie, baby photographer. I'll never forget that day. For two hours, I'd been trying to make that little brat smile. I threw the book at him, every surefire trick of the trade.” 4:19 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 4:12 (passage 4:09–4:30); US record: No renewal found

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