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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 150 · permalink

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47:15–47:34 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:1947:19Frame at 47:2547:25Frame at 47:3047:30

Play from 47:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 409–411. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: t:47:32
People
  • man in white lab coat and tie, standing visible
  • older man in striped robe, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, standing visible
  • man seated, white shirt, tie, hand on head visible
  • woman in dark dress with light trim, earrings, hair up visible, audible
  • man in white shirt and patterned tie, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
  • A seated man gestures while talking to a standing man; others look on. [frame:2]
  • A woman speaks to a seated man while holding his arm. [frame:3]
Also said
“We might as well tell them the truth.” 47:26 · “It's a ferry building.” 47:32
Seen
water cooler [t:47:15], desk lamp [frame:2], door with glass panel [frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:1], wall clock [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, hidden objects, interrogation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, classic noir framing

Three men stand in a room while a woman speaks to one of them; the transcript reveals a map is hidden in a water cooler. The location is identified as a ferry building in the dialogue.

“Go on, chummy. You tell him. All right. I hid the map in a water cooler in my office.” 47:15 · “Oh, he's lying. I've searched his office.” 47:15 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 47:19 (passage 47:15–47:34); US record: No renewal found

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