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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 253 · permalink

Private office

1:19:06–1:19:31 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:081:19:08Frame at 1:19:131:19:13Frame at 1:19:181:19:18Frame at 1:19:281:19:28

Play from 1:19:06 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 687–693. 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
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing glasses, suit jacket, bow tie, light trousers visible, audible
  • Collada (named at t:79:21): unseen audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man is on the floor, reaching toward a cord. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man bends over, looking under a piece of furniture. [frame:3]
  • The man holds a small object and looks up. [frame:4]
Also said
“Always belittling me. When I do a job, I do it. I don't think we ought to waste time arguing between ourselves. Excuse me. All right.” 79:11 · “Well, I... I'll get to think it over for a minute. It's a very big decision. I don't like to be kept waiting, girl. No, we don't. Did you hear me, Collada?” 79:21
Seen
cord, rug, furniture, glasses, suit jacket, bow tie, light trousers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, negotiation, power dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, low-angle shots, dramatic lighting

A man in a suit and glasses is on the floor, interacting with a cord and a piece of furniture. He speaks while gesturing, and another person is addressed by name in the transcript.

“What do you mean "we"?” 79:09 · “I did.” 79:10 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 1:19:08 (passage 1:19:06–1:19:31); US record: No renewal found

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