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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 237 · permalink

Hallway

1:13:43–1:14:10 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; 4 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 1:13:511:13:51Frame at 1:14:051:14:05

Play from 1:13:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 647–648. 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
  • man in dark suit, visible through keyhole visible
  • man in light suit, arms crossed, visible through keyhole visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p2, visible through keyhole visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on right, visible through keyhole visible
Seen happening
  • A hallway with a fire escape sign is shown. [frame:1]
  • Four men in suits are seen standing in a room, viewed through a keyhole. [frame:2]
Also said
“No.” 74:06 · “Yeah, come on.” 74:07
Seen
FIRE ESCAPE sign, keyhole view, lamp
On screen
FIRE ESCAPE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspicion, power dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, keyhole framing creates voyeuristic perspective, medium shot of group, high contrast lighting

A hallway with a fire escape sign is shown, followed by a view through a keyhole of four men in suits standing in a room. One man speaks lines that suggest a confrontation or taunt, including 'Okay, sucker' and a comment about pride.

“Okay, sucker.” 73:48 · “Oh, I've been proud of me. I tell you not kiss me. He never proud of anybody.” 74:00 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 1:13:51 (passage 1:13:43–1:14:10); US record: No renewal found

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