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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 146 · permalink

Living room

45:37–46:07 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:4245:42Frame at 45:4645:46Frame at 45:5145:51Frame at 46:0146:01

Play from 45:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 395–398. 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
  • Uncle Stafford (named at t:45:41): man, older, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, seated in a wheelchair, smoking a cigarette visible, audible
  • Carlotta (named at t:45:56): woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark dress, standing visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a light-colored shirt and tie, standing visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit, standing behind p3 visible
  • man, older, wearing a striped robe, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a wheelchair gestures while speaking, with two men standing behind him. [frame:1]
  • A man leans toward the man in the wheelchair, holding his hands. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand side by side, one in a shirt and tie, the other in a striped robe. [frame:3]
  • A woman stands facing the man in the wheelchair, who is smoking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Light, please, Carlotta.” 45:56 · “Here, Mr. Baron.” 46:04
Seen
wheelchair [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], cigarette [frame:4], document [t:46:04]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, identity, power dynamics; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera framing

A man in a wheelchair is confronted by two standing men and a woman named Carlotta in a room with a lamp and doorway. The transcript reveals the man in the wheelchair is Uncle Stafford, and another man refers to him as the 'Baron' while handing him a document.

“Uncle Stafford.” 45:41 · “They haven't harmed me.” 45:46 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 45:42 (passage 45:37–46:07); US record: No renewal found

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