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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 123 · permalink

Seacliffe lodge sanitarium

39:40–40:01 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 39:4139:41Frame at 39:4539:45Frame at 39:5339:53Frame at 39:5939:59

Play from 39:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 337–341. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
Seacliffe Lodge Sanitarium (hotel lobby, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man wearing a hat, visible from the side in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A convertible car drives along a coastal road. [frame:1]
  • The car approaches a stone gatepost at the entrance to a property. [frame:2]
  • The car is shown from behind, entering the property. [frame:3]
  • A man stands beside a sign reading 'SEACLIFFE LODGE SANITARIUM'. [frame:4]
Also said
“The place is just what I figured. A ritzy summer is” 39:56 · “complete with golf course.” 40:00
Seen
convertible car [frame:1], stone gatepost [frame:2], sign reading 'SEACLIFFE LODGE SANITARIUM' [frame:4]
On screen
SEACLIFFE LODGE SANITARIUM
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and purposeful; themes: pursuit, disguise, arrival at destination; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of vehicle movement, static framing of signage, natural lighting

A man drives a convertible along a coastal road and arrives at the Seacliffe Lodge Sanitarium, which he enters pretending to be a guest. The transcript indicates he is searching for a woman and describes the lodge as ritzy with a golf course.

“Well, I knew where the doll's my next move is to find her. So I get back into my hot rod special and start out.” 39:40 · “About an hour later, I spot a sign: "Sea Cliff Lodge." So, I go in to locate the girl, pretending I'm just another guest looking for a little quiet relaxation.” 39:40 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 39:41 (passage 39:40–40:01); US record: No renewal found

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