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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 160 · permalink

Private office

49:48–50:18 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 49:5249:52Frame at 50:0150:01Frame at 50:0950:09Frame at 50:1650:16

Play from 49:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 435–438. 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, middle-aged, wearing a striped robe, lying on a bed, later standing near a window visible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a white coat and dark tie, holding a tray, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe lies on a bed. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white coat enters holding a tray and stands near the man in the robe. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white coat stands and speaks to the man in the robe. [frame:3]
  • The man in the robe stands near a window while the man in the white coat gestures. [frame:4]
Also said
“I fixed it all myself. Oh, I haven't got much of an appetite. If I could take a long walk.” 50:00 · “Oh, them there guys wouldn't let you. You know, Jimmy, I like you. Yeah, well, you got a funny way of showing it.” 50:00
Seen
bed [frame:1], tray [frame:2], window [frame:4], robe [frame:1], white coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: confinement, dialogue-driven interaction, personal conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

A man in a robe lies on a bed while another man in a white coat enters holding a tray. The man in the robe speaks about wanting to take a walk, and the man in the coat responds while standing nearby. The scene remains in a private office with two men interacting.

“Oh, it's you!” 49:54 · “Okay, take me away.” 49:56 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 49:52 (passage 49:48–50:18); US record: No renewal found

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