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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 222 · permalink

Private office

1:10:39–1:10:49 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:10:431:10:43Frame at 1:10:481:10:48

Play from 1:10:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 617–618. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, fedora, sunglasses, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • man in light suit and fedora, standing left visible
  • woman in white head covering and dark dress visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, smiling, standing right visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing far right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in sunglasses gestures while speaking to a group. [frame:1]
  • The group continues to listen as the man speaks. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, look...” 70:48
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], ornate wall paneling [frame:1], white head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: deception, urban crime, group confrontation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with ornate decor, characters in 1940s attire

A man in sunglasses and a suit speaks to a group of men in hats and suits in a room with ornate walls; a woman in a white head covering stands behind him. The transcript reveals he is not a detective but a stool pigeon and mentions other hotels.

“Well... I'm not exactly a detective, I'm more of a stool pigeon.” 70:41 · “They're at the other hotels, you know, I thought...” 70:46 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 1:10:43 (passage 1:10:39–1:10:49); US record: No renewal found

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