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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 161 · permalink

Jail

50:18–51:27 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2150:21Frame at 50:5150:51Frame at 51:0551:05Frame at 51:2351:23

Play from 50:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 439–447. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • man in striped robe, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Willie (named at t:50:24): man in white suit and tie, larger build, dark hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe looks out a barred window. [frame:1]
  • The man in the robe examines the arm of the man in the suit. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit stands while the man in the robe touches his arm. [frame:3]
  • Both men stand near the barred window, looking out. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, chummy, do you care if I feel your muscle, too? No, go ahead.” 50:35 · “With your strength, I bet you could take that radiator and just pull it out by the roots and play it like an accordion, huh?” 51:03
Seen
barred window, robe, suit and tie, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and comedic; themes: physical strength as comedy, male camaraderie, jail setting as backdrop for banter; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with barred window suggesting confinement

Two men in a room, one in a robe and the other in a suit, interact while discussing physical strength; one man examines the other's arm and suggests feats of strength. The room has barred windows and a door, and the conversation includes joking remarks about muscles and bending bars.

“You just don't know your own strength.” 50:19 · “Boulder dam with legs and look at those shoulders and that arm.” 50:27 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 50:21 (passage 50:18–51:27); US record: No renewal found

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