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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 233 · permalink

Living room

1:12:32–1:13:00 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:361:12:36Frame at 1:12:411:12:41Frame at 1:12:461:12:46Frame at 1:12:551:12:55

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Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 89 · shots 636–639. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, seen from back entering room visible
  • man in light jacket and trousers, carrying suitcase visible
  • Simon (named at t:72:45): older man in suit, standing in room visible
  • man seated in armchair, wearing suit visible
  • Tony (named at t:72:32): man in suit, standing near doorway visible, audible
  • Farron (named at t:72:56): man in suit, speaking off-screen or partially visible audible
  • Mr. Dawson (named at t:72:57): man in suit, speaking off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit enters a room followed by another man carrying a suitcase. [frame:1]
  • The man carrying the suitcase walks further into the room. [frame:2]
  • The room is shown with multiple men present, one holding a suitcase overhead, another standing near a door, and two seated. [frame:3]
  • A man in light trousers adjusts his hat while standing near a lamp, with another man in a suit observing. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, Farron, how was it easy?” 72:56 · “I handle Mr. Dawson beautifully.” 72:57
Seen
suitcase [frame:1], armchair [frame:3], lamp [frame:4], door [frame:3], portfolio [t:72:45]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: business dealings, instructions and authority, arrival and setup; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir

Two men enter a room carrying luggage; one is instructed to place bags in a room with a portfolio. A third man, identified as Simon, is present in the room with others.

“All right, Tony.” 72:32 · “That portfolio... The office is in there, Simon.” 72:45 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 1:12:36 (passage 1:12:32–1:13:00); US record: No renewal found

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