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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 124 · permalink

Roadside

40:01–40:20 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:0540:05Frame at 40:1140:11Frame at 40:1640:16

Play from 40:01 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 49 · shots 342–344. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
roadside (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in striped shirt, dark pants, holding golf clubs visible
  • man in light hat, vest, and trousers, holding a golf club visible
  • man in dark suit, fedora, standing by car visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped shirt stands near golf clubs while another man in a hat holds a club. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat walks away from the man in the striped shirt. [frame:2]
  • The man in the fedora stands by a car and speaks to the man in the hat. [frame:3]
Also said
“Straight ahead, you can't miss it.” 40:11 · “Did you notice if a good looking dark hair girl checked in there last night?” 40:15
Seen
golf clubs [frame:1], white fence [frame:1], car [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly tense; themes: travel, inquiry, encounter; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera, period costumes

Two men speak outdoors near a car and trees; one asks directions to a lodge and about a dark-haired woman. The setting appears to be a roadside or driveway with a white fence and distant water.

“How do you get to the lodge from here?” 40:07 · “The lodge? That's where I live.” 40:08 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 40:05 (passage 40:01–40:20); US record: No renewal found

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