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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 122 · permalink

Private office

39:20–39:40 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3039:30

Play from 39:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 336–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit, tie, and fedora hat, smiling, holding a small object and a handkerchief visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and fedora smiles while holding a small object and a handkerchief. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat, suit and tie, handkerchief, small object (possibly a cigarette or lighter), curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: mystery, comedy, private detective trope; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, studio lighting, classic film noir framing

A man in a suit and fedora holds a small object and a handkerchief while smiling. The setting appears to be an interior space with curtains in the background.

“Here. Here.” 39:28 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 39:30 (passage 39:20–39:40); US record: No renewal found

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