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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 254 · permalink

Private office

1:19:31–1:19:55 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:19:361:19:36Frame at 1:19:441:19:44Frame at 1:19:491:19:49Frame at 1:19:531:19:53

Play from 1:19:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 694–697. 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
  • woman, dark hair in a bun, wearing a striped uniform with a white collar and headband visible, audible
  • man, balding, wearing a dark suit, seen from the back visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a suit and bow tie, kneeling on a rug visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands between two men in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • A man kneels on a rug and touches a wire near a piece of furniture. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The man continues to examine the wire on the rug. [frame:4]
Also said
“Did you hear me?” 79:54
Seen
bookshelf [frame:1], rug [frame:2], wire [frame:2], furniture with open compartment [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: suspicion, investigation, accusation; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, studio lighting, static framing

A woman in a striped uniform stands between two men in a room with bookshelves while one man kneels on a rug examining a wire. The transcript includes dialogue questioning who killed Mr. Collins and references a 'baby photographer' and 'phony detective.'

“Well... Did you really kill Mr. Collins? Well, who do you think did it? That baby photographer? That phony detective?” 79:33 · “How do you like that? Such a neat job, an artistic job, and she thinks an amateur did it. Yes, yes. Stop taking vows. I'm not taking any vows. I'm still waiting, Carlotta.” 79:42 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 1:19:36 (passage 1:19:31–1:19:55); US record: No renewal found

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