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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 214 · permalink

Pawnbroker

1:08:31–1:08:51 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:08:351:08:35Frame at 1:08:441:08:44Frame at 1:08:491:08:49

Play from 1:08:31 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 76 · shots 600–602. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
pawnbroker (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, wearing sunglasses, standing in foreground visible
  • woman in light dress, standing behind counter visible
  • man in light suit, seated behind counter visible
  • narrator (unseen), voice-over describing flight and arrival audible
Seen happening
  • Newspaper headline reads 'BABY PHOTOGRAPHER SOUGHT IN DARING COLLINS MURDER!' [frame:1]
  • Man in fedora stands in pawnbroker shop with woman and man behind counter. [frame:2]
  • Airplane flies through clouds. [frame:3]
Also said
“I had to play cagey. The only thing that bothered me was the altitude.” 68:50 · “We hit Washington about noon the next day, and we grabbed a cab for the Pilgrim Hotel.” 68:50
Seen
newspaper, pawnbroker sign, airplane
On screen
SAN FRANCISCO ADVOCATE / BABY PHOTOGRAPHER SOUGHT IN DARING COLLINS MURDER! / PAWN BROKER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: noirish, suspenseful; themes: murder mystery, disguise, travel, urban noir; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots with foreground figures, newspaper as prop, airplane in dramatic sky

A character narrates a flight eastward, mentioning Carlotta and arriving at the Pilgrim Hotel; frames show a newspaper headline about a murder, a pawnbroker’s shop interior, and an airplane in clouds. The narrator mentions playing cagey and getting airsick, and names Ronnie Jackson as part of the payoff.

“plane headed east, and by midnight we were playing tag with the Rockies.” 68:50 · “Carlotta was very sweet. She looked after me like a mother.” 68:50 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 1:08:35 (passage 1:08:31–1:08:51); US record: No renewal found

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