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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 201 · permalink

Restaurant

1:03:22–1:03:47 Registered 1947

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

Frame at 1:03:261:03:26Frame at 1:03:341:03:34Frame at 1:03:431:03:43

Play from 1:03:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 555–557. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, balding, medium build visible
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:63:05): woman in white dress, dark hair styled up, wearing necklace and belt visible, audible
  • blonde woman seated at table, wearing dark dress visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo approaches a woman seated at a table and speaks to her. [frame:2]
  • The woman responds to the man. [frame:2]
Also said
“We'd like to speak to you for a minute.” 63:29 · “I'm sorry I think you have the wrong man. Wait up. That's it. This map mean anything to you.” 63:46
Seen
table with floral centerpiece [frame:1], chandelier [frame:1], map [t:63:46]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: mystery, deception, social interaction in formal setting; style notes: classic black-and-white film noir framing, medium shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing characters' faces and expressions

In a restaurant, a man in a tuxedo approaches a woman seated at a table and speaks to her while another man stands nearby. The woman responds, and the man shows her a map, claiming his uncle is Baron Monte. The scene includes other patrons and waitstaff in the background.

“Pardon me, sir. You're wanted on the telephone, miss. If you'll excuse me.” 63:22 · “Oh, Mr. Collins?” 63:28 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 1:03:26 (passage 1:03:22–1:03:47); US record: No renewal found

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