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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 143 · permalink

Living room

44:09–44:39 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1744:17Frame at 44:2744:27Frame at 44:3044:30Frame at 44:3544:35

Play from 44:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 384–387. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Carlotta (named at t:44:11): woman in dark dress with necklace visible, audible
  • Sam (named at t:44:12): man in white shirt and dark trousers, tie loosened visible, audible
  • man in light suit and tie, standing in doorway visible
  • man in light-colored robe holding a smoking object visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Smoke fills the room as a man in a robe appears holding a smoking object. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh Sam I'm sorry. Oh that's all right baby. Oh why did I have to go and do this now I got you in this mess too.” 44:14 · “Oh, I'll be right with you, boss.” 44:36
Seen
lamp [frame:2], couch [frame:2], smoking object [frame:3], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: gender role play, interruption, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, dramatic framing with smoke for effect

A woman and a man in a living room are interrupted by another man entering; smoke fills the room as a fourth man appears. The woman apologizes to the man she was with, and they exchange remarks about gender roles before noticing the smoke and the fourth man.

“You got company, ma'am.” 44:09 · “Carlotta!” 44:11 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 44:17 (passage 44:09–44:39); US record: No renewal found

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