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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 195 · permalink

Hallway

1:01:42–1:02:03 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; 2 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 1:01:481:01:48Frame at 1:01:561:01:56Frame at 1:02:011:02:01

Play from 1:01:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 70 · shots 541–543. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Jackson (named at t:61:27): man in light suit and tie, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mrs. Fong (named at t:61:37): woman in dark coat and hat, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman walk quickly down a hallway. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures toward a door while speaking to the woman. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands alone, looking upward with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“Don't worry about it. I'll send you a check.” 61:55 · “But you gave me the wrong negative.” 61:59
Seen
door with ornate frame [frame:2], wall-mounted sign [frame:1], woman's hat and coat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: miscommunication, haste, negotiation; style notes: medium shots and close-ups in a dimly lit hallway; high-contrast lighting emphasizes faces and movement

A man and a woman are in a hallway; the man urges haste while the woman objects to a mix-up with a negative. The woman is visible in a close-up at the end.

“Here they come! Hurry! Hurry up!” 61:48 · “Come on, let's go while we're still here.” 61:51 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 1:01:48 (passage 1:01:42–1:02:03); US record: No renewal found

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