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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 147 · permalink

Private office

46:07–46:27 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:1146:11Frame at 46:1946:19Frame at 46:2546:25

Play from 46:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 399–401. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, balding, medium build visible
  • man in white shirt and tie, light-colored trousers, standing near curtain visible
  • man in white coat, behind p2 visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress with white trim, earrings visible
  • man in bow tie, seated, looking up at p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat stands behind the man near the curtain. [frame:1]
  • The man in the white coat holds a stethoscope to the man in the shirt. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a dark dress stands over a seated man in a bow tie. [frame:3]
Mentioned
  • The transcript mentions having a niece and mapping before chrysanthemums bloom. [t:46:18]
Also said
“before the chrysanthemum blooms.” 46:18 · “Please put this away, yes?” 46:23
Seen
curtained partition [frame:1], stethoscope [frame:2], dark dress with white trim [frame:3], bow tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: threat, medical setting, negotiation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men speak in a room with a curtained partition; a woman in a dark dress appears with a man in a bow tie. The transcript includes a threat about a niece and a reference to chrysanthemums.

“We have your niece.” 46:07 · “Having Mr. McCloud...” 46:10 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 46:11 (passage 46:07–46:27); US record: No renewal found

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