Public Reel

My Favorite Brunette · Beat 185 · permalink

Road

57:22–57:39 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:2657:26Frame at 57:3357:33Frame at 57:3857:38

Play from 57:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 507–509. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark shirt, holding a knife visible
  • man in white shirt and tie, standing visible
  • man in uniform, standing visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated in car visible
  • man in light shirt, driving car visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a knife while standing with two other men outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man are seated in a car; the man is driving. [frame:2]
  • The man driving speaks while looking ahead; the woman looks concerned. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, I'm driving.” 57:32 · “I'll take it through here, it gets a little rough.” 57:34
Seen
knife, car, uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, travel under duress, gender roles in driving; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, car interior close-ups

Three men stand outdoors near a car while one holds a knife; inside the car, a woman and a man are seated, with the man driving. The transcript includes dialogue about a knife, driving, and taking a rough route.

“You do better with your knife. Shut up.” 57:26 · “What happened?” 57:31 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from My Favorite Brunette (1947) at 57:26 (passage 57:22–57:39); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/my_favorite_brunette/b185.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite