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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 256 · permalink

Private office

1:20:36–1:21:04 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:401:20:40Frame at 1:20:551:20:55Frame at 1:20:591:20:59Frame at 1:21:031:21:03

Play from 1:20:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 705–710. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, holding a gun, standing near doorway visible, audible
  • woman in striped dress and headscarf, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in light suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in light suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in striped suit, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a gun while standing near a doorway, facing several men. [frame:1]
  • Several men are seen backing up against a wall while a man with a gun covers them. [frame:2]
  • Men stand against a wall, looking toward the armed man. [frame:3]
  • Men remain lined up against the wall, under threat. [frame:4]
Also said
“I said back up.” 80:59
Seen
gun [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], armchair [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, power dynamics, threat; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, classic noir framing

A man in a suit holds several men at gunpoint in a room while speaking to them; a woman stands near a doorway. The men are ordered to back up against a wall as the armed man threatens them with bullets.

“All right, yeah. Come on. Easy does it, fellas. I got a bullet in here for each of you. And one left over in case I can still hear breathing. You know those dicks downstairs? Tell them I'm giving a little party in 14th Sea. Hurry.” 80:36 · “- All right. Will you be all right? - All right, this is my type of work. Light up against the wall. Hurry up, I got you covered. Back up, all of you.” 80:49 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 1:20:40 (passage 1:20:36–1:21:04); US record: No renewal found

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