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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 157 · permalink

Bedroom

48:34–48:59 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3648:36Frame at 48:4148:41Frame at 48:5448:54Frame at 48:5848:58

Play from 48:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 424–428. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a striped robe, average build visible
  • woman, visible only in frame:1, wearing robe, dark hair styled in waves visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a robe stands near a door, looking concerned. [frame:1]
  • A man in a robe walks across a room with two beds toward a door. [frame:2]
  • The man presses his ear to a door, listening. [frame:3]
  • The man continues listening at the door, holding a hat. [frame:4]
Also said
“What's up, baby? That cigarette you saw me take from my uncle. There was a message in it from him. We've two hours to get out of here. Oh, we've got nothing to worry about.” 48:42 · “Until Tony gets back.” 48:52
Seen
striped robe [frame:1], two beds [frame:2], door with knob [frame:3], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: confinement, secret communication, impending danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, classic 1940s film noir framing

A man in a striped robe is seen in a room with two beds, listening at a door while a woman speaks off-screen. The dialogue mentions a cigarette with a message, a two-hour deadline, and concern about someone named Tony returning.

“Sam.” 48:35 · “Sam, can you hear me?” 48:37 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 48:36 (passage 48:34–48:59); US record: No renewal found

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