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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 202 · permalink

Restaurant

1:03:47–1:04:20 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. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:03:511:03:51Frame at 1:03:591:03:59Frame at 1:04:101:04:10Frame at 1:04:171:04:17

Play from 1:03:47 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 72 · shots 558–562. 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, older, balding, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a light-colored dress with embellished shoulders visible, audible
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:64:17): woman, blonde, wearing a dark strapless dress visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks to a woman at a restaurant table while another man listens. [frame:1]
  • The man in the tuxedo looks at a piece of paper while seated at the table. [frame:2]
  • A blonde woman in a dark dress stands near a doorway, facing a man whose back is to the camera. [frame:3]
  • The three people at the table continue their conversation, with the man on the left speaking. [frame:4]
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], dining table with floral centerpiece [frame:1], piece of paper [frame:2], dark strapless dress [frame:3], curtained doorway [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, identity, social class; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, formal attire, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir

In a crowded restaurant, a man in a tuxedo speaks with a woman at a table while another man listens; a separate scene shows a woman in a dark dress standing near a doorway. The dialogue mentions a 'Baron' and an appointment in Washington at the Pilgrim Hotel.

“Where is the Baron? Henry! The waiter said you had a phone call for me. I will check it for you, madam. The Baron had an important appointment this Wednesday afternoon in Washington.” 64:05 · “Washington in his office at the pilgrim hotel pilgrim hotel someone must keep that appointment someone will but it won't be the right Baron Montaigne right?” 64:17 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 1:03:51 (passage 1:03:47–1:04:20); US record: No renewal found

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