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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 174 · permalink

Kitchen

55:50–56:12 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:5155:51Frame at 55:5555:55Frame at 56:0056:00Frame at 56:1156:11

Play from 55:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 485–491. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a dark button-up uniform with a watch on his left wrist visible
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a white lab coat over a shirt and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark uniform raises his right hand holding a small object. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white coat enters and stands beside the man in uniform, looking alarmed. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white coat lunges toward a counter, reaching for a pot. [frame:3]
  • The man in the white coat bends forward, appearing to brace or prepare to move quickly. [frame:4]
Also said
“- You... - Temper! - I have you! You... Why, you stupid... - Pardon me, you... - You... - You... Marverite! You... Broodice! Come on, let's...” 56:01
Seen
gun [frame:1], kitchen counter [frame:1], refrigerator [frame:1], window with blinds [frame:1], pot [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, suspense, domestic space as site of conflict; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera framing

A man in a dark uniform holds a gun while another man in a white coat enters and reacts. The man in white then moves aggressively toward a counter. No names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“Oh, nothing personal.” 55:51 · “- What's that? - Come here. Where are you? Hey, where? Where?” 55:55 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 55:51 (passage 55:50–56:12); US record: No renewal found

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