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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 234 · permalink

Private office

1:13:00–1:13:25 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; 2 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 1:13:041:13:04Frame at 1:13:121:13:12Frame at 1:13:201:13:20

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 640–642. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing suit and apron, glasses visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing dress and headscarf visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands at desk adjusting apron. [frame:1]
  • Woman enters frame and gestures toward man. [frame:2]
  • Woman extends hand toward man while speaking. [frame:3]
Also said
“Would you like me to open the window for you?” 73:12 · “Yes, ma'am.” 73:16
Seen
desk [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], patterned curtains [frame:1], apron [frame:1], suit [frame:1], headscarf [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: professional interaction, unspoken tension, service role; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir

A man in a suit and apron stands at a desk while a woman in a dress and headscarf gestures toward him; they exchange dialogue about Washington and opening a window. The setting is an office with a desk, lamp, and patterned curtains.

“Nice having you with us again, Baron Monte. Will you be in Washington, Lord?” 73:01 · “Not long. Days, perhaps.” 73:05 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 1:13:04 (passage 1:13:00–1:13:25); US record: No renewal found

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