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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 231 · permalink

Hallway

1:12:01–1:12:11 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; 2 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 1:12:061:12:06

Play from 1:12:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 632–632. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Dawson (named at t:72:03): man wearing glasses, tuxedo jacket with tails, white shirt, bow tie, and light-colored trousers visible, audible
  • Major Montague (named at t:72:10): None mentioned
Seen happening
  • Mr. Dawson peers through a keyhole while holding a flashlight. [frame:1]
Also said
“Is that all right, Major Montague?” 72:10
Seen
flashlight [frame:1], keyhole [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: espionage, intrusion, authority; style notes: tight framing on a single character, high-contrast lighting emphasizing shadow and silhouette, classic noir visual language

A man in a tuxedo jacket and glasses peers through a keyhole while calling out. He asks if it is acceptable to proceed, addressing someone as Major Montague.

“Hey!” 72:02 · “Hey! Hey, Mr. Dawson! Boy, bring us back! Mr. Dawson, I want to talk to you! Which way, huh?” 72:03 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 1:12:06 (passage 1:12:01–1:12:11); US record: No renewal found

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