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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 158 · permalink

Bedroom

48:59–49:23 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0249:02Frame at 49:0949:09Frame at 49:1649:16Frame at 49:2249:22

Play from 48:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 429–432. 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, audible
  • woman, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a robe visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man kneels beside a couch. [frame:2]
  • The woman holds a hairpin near her mouth. [frame:3]
Also said
“Say, how'd you know about that cigarette? My uncle never smokes. So, when he asked me for a light, I... He wants us to get in touch with the James Collins, Engineering Facts Corporation. Uh-huh. I've seen this done a thousand times. Who is this James Collins? I don't know. But we've got to find him.” 49:10
Seen
hairpin [frame:3], striped robe [frame:2], couch [frame:2], door with knob [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: mystery, deception, urgent collaboration; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting typical of film noir, static camera shots

A man and a woman in robes are in a bedroom; the woman asks for a hairpin and the man kneels near a couch. The dialogue reveals they are discussing a cigarette and a person named James Collins.

“Say, have you got a hairpin?” 49:00 · “Sam, this is no time to be thinking about your looks. Here. Oh, good.” 49:01 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 49:02 (passage 48:59–49:23); US record: No renewal found

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