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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 148 · permalink

Private office

46:27–46:54 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; 4 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 46:3246:32Frame at 46:4046:40Frame at 46:4546:45Frame at 46:5046:50

Play from 46:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 402–405. 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, audible
  • man in white shirt and tie, light-colored trousers visible, audible
  • man in white coat visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark robe with white trim, earrings visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit confronts a man in a white shirt and tie in an office. [frame:1]
  • The man in the white coat restrains the man in the white shirt as he leans back. [frame:2]
  • The man in the dark suit raises a gun. [frame:3]
  • The man in the white coat holds a white cloth near the man in the white shirt's head. [frame:4]
Also said
“I want that map, and I want it now.” 46:31 · “Oh, temper, kismet temper. Don't be so rough with Sam. He can take it. The poor boy sees. He don't know what's going on.” 46:43
Seen
gun [frame:3], white cloth [frame:4], curtain [frame:1], lamp [frame:3], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, power struggle, interruption; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

In a private office, a man in a dark suit demands a map from another man, who resists. A third man in a white coat intervenes as the situation escalates, and a woman in a robe is present.

“Come here, Willie.” 46:27 · “Let's stop fooling around, son.” 46:29 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 46:32 (passage 46:27–46:54); US record: No renewal found

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