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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 249 · permalink

Hotel lobby

1:17:31–1:17:44 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 6 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 1:17:331:17:33Frame at 1:17:381:17:38Frame at 1:17:431:17:43

Play from 1:17:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 675–677. 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
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a striped dress and white apron, holding a shoe visible
  • man, 40s, seated, wearing a suit, holding papers visible
  • man, 50s, standing, wearing a dark suit, facing the group visible
  • man, 30s, seated, wearing a suit, looking at p2 visible
  • man, 40s, standing behind p2, wearing a suit visible
  • man, 40s, wearing a suit, walking toward doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a maid's uniform holds a shoe while standing in a room. [frame:1]
  • Several men in suits are gathered in a room, some seated, some standing. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit walks toward a doorway and looks into another room. [frame:3]
Seen
shoe, lamp, desk, suitcases, framed pictures, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, investigation, class roles; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir

A woman in a maid's uniform stands in a room holding a shoe; several men in suits are seated or standing nearby. A man in a suit walks toward a doorway, looking into an adjacent room.

“I don't know.” 77:34 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 1:17:33 (passage 1:17:31–1:17:44); US record: No renewal found

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