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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 162 · permalink

Living room

51:27–51:52 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3151:31Frame at 51:3951:39Frame at 51:4751:47

Play from 51:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 448–450. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Tommy (named at t:51:43): man in light suit, dark tie, smiling, medium build visible, audible
  • man in striped robe, facing p1, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“Thanks very much. I'll be seeing you, Tommy.” 51:43 · “That's my face.” 51:46
Seen
window with trees visible, striped robe, light suit and dark tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted, comedic; themes: male camaraderie, absurd dialogue, film noir parody; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, black-and-white film, static camera

Two men interact in a room with a window showing trees; one wears a suit and tie, the other a striped robe. One man says goodbye to 'Tommy' and mentions buying 'rabbit leaf'.

“Oh, you're solid spinach.” 51:38 · “I'll buy you rabbit leaf.” 51:41 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 51:31 (passage 51:27–51:52); US record: No renewal found

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