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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 120 · permalink

Private office

38:51–39:11 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 38:5538:55Frame at 39:0539:05

Play from 38:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 332–333. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a suit, fedora, and tie, holding a small object visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and fedora walks toward a window with heavy curtains. [frame:1]
  • The man holds and examines a small object, possibly a ring, while smoking a cigarette. [frame:2]
Seen
fedora [frame:1], suit [frame:1], cigarette [frame:2], heavy curtains [frame:1], ring (implied) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful discovery; themes: detective work, clue discovery; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, medium close-up framing, static camera

A man in a suit and fedora walks through a dimly lit room with heavy curtains and examines an object he holds. He speaks the words 'Aha' and 'Eureka. Her ring.'

“Aha.” 38:58 · “Eureka. Her ring.” 39:06 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 38:55 (passage 38:51–39:11); US record: No renewal found

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