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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 239 · permalink

Living room

1:14:14–1:14:47 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:181:14:18Frame at 1:14:301:14:30Frame at 1:14:431:14:43

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 650–652. 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:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera, medium build visible
  • man in suit holding hat, standing center, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, standing right, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo enters a room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit stands with his back to the camera. [frame:2]
  • Three men stand together; one holds a hat. [frame:3]
Also said
“He pretends he doesn't know the code.” 74:42 · “Give me that.” 74:45
Seen
lamp, side table, curtains, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, secrecy, authority; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, classic noir framing

A man in a tuxedo enters a room and is joined by two other men; one of them holds a hat. A transcript line mentions Barron as a stubborn man who won't talk about a code.

“Don't name it.” 74:32 · “Barron's a stubborn old man.” 74:37 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 1:14:18 (passage 1:14:14–1:14:47); US record: No renewal found

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