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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 188 · permalink

Private office

58:24–58:58 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3058:30Frame at 58:3758:37Frame at 58:4858:48

Play from 58:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 518–520. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Ronnie Jackson (named at t:58:26): man, middle-aged, wearing a striped robe, arms crossed or walking visible, audible
  • Miss Monte (named at t:58:52): woman, wearing dark coat and headscarf, standing or pointing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Ronnie Jackson and Miss Monte stand in an office with a detective agency sign visible. [frame:1]
  • Ronnie Jackson walks across the room while Miss Monte points toward a door. [frame:2]
  • Ronnie Jackson hands a map to Miss Monte. [frame:3]
Also said
“The last 24 hours I've been knocked out, shot at, beaten up, knocked out again and put through the ringer.” 58:39 · “Here's your map, Miss Monte.” 58:52
Seen
striped robe [frame:1, frame:2], detective agency sign [frame:1], map [frame:3], water cooler [frame:2], door [frame:2]
On screen
M. CLINTON DETECTIVE AGENCY
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: detective work, deception, survival; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a striped robe and a woman in dark clothing are in an office; the man speaks about being a detective and having been through rough treatment, then hands a map to the woman. A sign for a detective agency is visible on the wall.

“Ronnie Jackson photographer for baby. Yeah, that's me.” 58:26 · “Where's Sam McCloud? He's out of town, which is a tough break for all of us, except him. So you've been playing, detective. Yeah, and I'm through playing, sister. Come on.” 58:31 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.

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Frame from My Favorite Brunette (1947) at 58:30 (passage 58:24–58:58); US record: No renewal found

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