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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 125 · permalink

Roadside

40:20–40:37 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:2140:21Frame at 40:2740:27Frame at 40:3440:34

Play from 40:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 345–347. 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
  • Smithers (named at t:40:34): man in striped shirt, dark pants, holding golf clubs visible, audible
  • Oliver J. Crawford (named at t:40:31): man in light hat, vest, and trousers, holding a golf club visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, fedora, standing by car visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped shirt crouches beside a golf bag near a bench. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand facing each other beside a car, one holding a golf club. [frame:2]
  • Two men shake hands beside a car. [frame:3]
Also said
“Crawford's the name. Oliver J. Crawford.” 40:31 · “Well, mine's a smithers.” 40:34
Seen
golf bag [frame:1], golf clubs [frame:1], bench [frame:1], car [frame:2], fedora [frame:2], striped shirt [frame:1], vest [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and transactional; themes: introduction, golf, transportation; style notes: medium shots, natural daylight, outdoor setting, minimal props

Two men meet beside a car on a roadside; one introduces himself as Oliver J. Crawford and the other as Smithers. They shake hands after discussing playing golf and arranging for a car to be sent.

“Care to play these last three holds? It'll take you right there.” 40:23 · “Okay, but how about my car? They'll send for it. Oh” 40:27 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 40:21 (passage 40:20–40:37); US record: No renewal found

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