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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 210 · permalink

Street

1:07:35–1:08:01 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:371:07:37Frame at 1:07:481:07:48Frame at 1:07:531:07:53Frame at 1:07:591:07:59

Play from 1:07:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 73 · shots 587–593. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
Period
1940s evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in police uniform, cap, badge visible visible
  • man in tuxedo, bow tie, fedora hat, holding a handkerchief visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man in the tuxedo turns away from the officer and begins to walk toward a parked car. [frame:2]
  • The man in the tuxedo reaches the car and looks back. [frame:3]
  • The man in the tuxedo runs away down the street as the officer shouts and pretends to shoot. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, stop or I'll shoot!” 67:57 · “BANG! BANG!” 67:58
Seen
police uniform [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie and fedora [frame:2], vintage car [frame:2], wet pavement [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: chase, comedy, nighttime urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and long shots, period costumes and vehicles

A man in a tuxedo speaks with a police officer on a city street at night, then flees as the officer shouts a warning and pretends to shoot. The street is wet and lit by building lights, with a vintage car parked nearby.

“Besides, some of my best friends are drunks.” 67:35 · “Well, I've got to go now. It's been fun.” 67:39 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 1:07:37 (passage 1:07:35–1:08:01); US record: No renewal found

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