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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 251 · permalink

Private office

1:18:19–1:18:49 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:231:18:23Frame at 1:18:351:18:35Frame at 1:18:461:18:46

Play from 1:18:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 95 · shots 681–683. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing glasses, dark suit, white shirt, lying on floor visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding papers, speaking visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p2, partially visible visible
  • Carla (named at t:78:37): woman in striped dress and white apron, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in glasses lies on the floor next to a record player. [frame:1]
  • A man stands over the man on the floor while another man stands beside a seated woman. [frame:2]
  • A man holds papers and speaks to a woman in a striped dress and apron. [frame:3]
Also said
“Too weak to fight any longer.” 78:29 · “Carla, I once made you a mighty generous offer concerning this.” 78:37
Seen
record player, papers, desk, framed picture, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation under duress, power dynamics, betrayal or coercion; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costumes

A man in glasses lies on the floor next to a record player while another man stands over him; later, a man holds papers and speaks to a woman in a striped dress and apron in an office. The transcript includes dialogue about being too smart, being alone, and repeating an offer concerning a map.

“He never knew when to keep his mouth shut.” 78:22 · “You were too smart for him. Now I'm alone and...” 78:24 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 1:18:23 (passage 1:18:19–1:18:49); US record: No renewal found

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