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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 193 · permalink

Private office

1:00:54–1:01:24 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. 3 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 1:00:551:00:55Frame at 1:01:011:01:01Frame at 1:01:101:01:10Frame at 1:01:191:01:19

Play from 1:00:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 534–537. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man, mid-30s, average build, wearing a striped shirt and later a suit jacket visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a robe or coat, dark hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are embracing and kissing. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman continue to kiss. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman stand apart, talking near a desk with a telephone. [frame:3]
  • The woman walks toward a doorway while the man watches her. [frame:4]
Also said
“Collins. Yeah. No, no, we got to get out of here. This is the first place those characters to look. I don't want that cuddles playing mumbly peg on my throat. Take those off. What? I mean, put this on. Oh, no, I better roll with you that first. Where's my hat?” 61:05
Seen
telephone, desk, suit jacket, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and intimate; themes: romance under pressure, escape, noir dialogue; style notes: close-up and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1940s film noir

A man and a woman embrace and kiss in a room, then stand apart as the man speaks urgently about leaving. The woman begins to exit through a doorway while the man watches.

“What do you want, baby? Darling...” 60:55 · “We've got to find James Collins.” 61:02 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 1:00:55 (passage 1:00:54–1:01:24); US record: No renewal found

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