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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 259 · permalink

Living room

1:22:09–1:22:20 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:111:22:11Frame at 1:22:161:22:16

Play from 1:22:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 724–725. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, stern expression visible
  • woman in striped dress and white apron, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • man in light suit, seated, being held by others visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near seated man visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, older, balding, standing right visible
  • Hennessy (named at t:82:13): voice identifying as Lieutenant Hennessy audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat enters a room where a woman and others are present. [frame:1]
  • A group surrounds a seated man being restrained; the woman stands nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm Lieutenant Hennessy. Oh, Lieutenant...” 82:13 · “Oh, boy, am I glad to see you.” 82:15
Seen
lamp with white shade, ornate lamp base, armchair, sofa, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: authority arrival, domestic disruption, relief at intervention; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, classic 1940s noir framing with characters grouped in a domestic interior

A man in a suit and hat enters a room where a woman in a striped dress and apron stands near a seated man being restrained; another man in a suit is present. A voice identifies himself as Lieutenant Hennessy, and someone expresses relief at seeing him.

“What's going on in here?” 82:10 · “Hump!” 82:12 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 1:22:11 (passage 1:22:09–1:22:20); US record: No renewal found

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