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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 232 · permalink

Hotel lobby

1:12:11–1:12:32 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:131:12:13Frame at 1:12:201:12:20Frame at 1:12:291:12:29

Play from 1:12:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 633–635. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and hat, seen from back, walking away visible
  • man in suit, bending over suitcase visible
  • man in suit, bending over suitcase, facing p2 visible
  • man in glasses and dark jacket, holding tray with pitcher visible
  • man in suit, carrying suitcase, walking away visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a tray with a pitcher and looks at it closely. [frame:2]
  • Two men bend over a suitcase while another man walks away carrying a bag. [frame:3]
Also said
“Don't push me around.” 72:27 · “My dues are paid too, you know.” 72:30
Seen
suitcase, tray with pitcher, wall sconce, door with number 14A
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and comedic; themes: hotel chaos, miscommunication, physical comedy; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

A man in a hallway asks for help with bags, mentioning a blonde in room 14A who is 'on fire,' while another man holds a tray with a pitcher. Two men bend over a suitcase in the hallway as a third man carries a bag away.

“Hey, boy. Give me a hand with these bags. No, but this ice water. There's a blonde in 14A who's on fire. Cut the comedy and get these bags. This is an emergency. She's sizzling. Come on.” 72:13 · “Okay, so I got that.” 72:24 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 1:12:13 (passage 1:12:11–1:12:32); US record: No renewal found

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