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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 121 · permalink

Seacliff lodge

39:11–39:20 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; 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 39:1239:12Frame at 39:1639:16

Play from 39:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 334–335. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
Seacliff Lodge (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, white shirt, tie, fedora, holding a torn map visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a torn map showing Seacliff Lodge. [frame:1]
  • The man looks down at the map in his hands. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh. I believe a clue.” 39:16
Seen
torn map, fedora, suit
On screen
SEACLIFF LODGE CARMEL, CALIFORNIA
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: detective, clue, location discovery; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, dramatic lighting on the man's face

A man in a suit and fedora examines a torn map showing Seacliff Lodge in Carmel, California. The transcript indicates the location is being identified as a clue.

“Seacliff Lodge.” 39:11 · “So that's where she is.” 39:13 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 39:12 (passage 39:11–39:20); US record: No renewal found

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