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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 203 · permalink

Restaurant

1:04:20–1:04:40 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:211:04:21Frame at 1:04:231:04:23Frame at 1:04:291:04:29Frame at 1:04:361:04:36

Play from 1:04:20 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 563–566. 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, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, younger, medium build visible
  • woman in evening gown, dark hair, medium build visible
  • older man in tuxedo, balding visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands and prepares to leave the table. [frame:3]
Also said
“Check. The 10-sync police stations are closest. Good. We'll call from there.” 64:25 · “But the sooner we get this into the hands of the FBI, the better.” 64:25
Seen
tuxedo, evening gown, dining table with flowers, chandelier
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, suspense, duty; style notes: formal attire, dim lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man in a tuxedo speaks to others at a formal gathering, instructing them to contact police if they do not return within 45 minutes. The group agrees to act, with one man staying behind while others prepare to leave.

“Our first move is to get the local police. That's it. No, you stay here, Mr. Montey. Yeah, you stay here. These men are killers.” 64:25 · “Yeah, then I'll stay here, too. Oh, come on. Okay. If we're not back in 45 minutes, call the police. All of them.” 64:25 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 1:04:21 (passage 1:04:20–1:04:40); US record: No renewal found

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