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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 223 · permalink

Private office

1:10:49–1:11:08 Registered 1947

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

Frame at 1:10:511:10:51Frame at 1:10:561:10:56Frame at 1:11:041:11:04

Play from 1:10:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 619–621. 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:2
People
  • man in suit and fedora, holding newspaper visible
  • woman in white headscarf and dark dress visible
  • man in suit, tie, and fedora, holding coat visible, audible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing near doorway visible
  • man in suit and fedora, partially visible visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing near table visible
Seen happening
  • A newspaper headline reading 'Collins Killer Still at Large' is shown. [frame:1]
  • A group of people in formal attire gather in a room, preparing to leave. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit and fedora gestures while speaking to the group. [frame:3]
Seen
newspaper, fedora hats, coat, table
On screen
Collins Killer Still at Large
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly comedic; themes: departure, social ritual, newspaper headline as plot device; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes

A newspaper headline about a killer is shown, followed by a group of people in a formal interior preparing to leave. One person speaks about tea and crumpets while others say goodbye.

“We must be off, old boy. Chilly old pip-pip, taphole and all that sort of rots. Come, Deborah, come.” 70:56 · “Yes, we mustn't be late for tea. - Now, I hate soggy crumpets, you know. - So do I. - Well, step up. - Goodbye, gentlemen.” 71:01 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 1:10:51 (passage 1:10:49–1:11:08); US record: No renewal found

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