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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 260 · permalink

Private office

1:22:20–1:22:45 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:241:22:24Frame at 1:22:331:22:33Frame at 1:22:411:22:41

Play from 1:22:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 726–728. 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 in dark suit and fedora, standing left visible
  • Ronnie Jackson (named at t:82:27): man in light suit and fedora, standing center, speaking visible, audible
  • woman in striped dress and apron, standing center visible
  • man in dark suit, standing right, older visible
  • man in light suit, seated, young visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward the woman and tells others to come watch and listen. [frame:3]
Also said
“Just a minute. You listen to that record and you'll see who killed James Collins.” 82:27 · “Come watch. Listen to this. Come here.” 82:40
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], record player [frame:1], door [frame:1], couch [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, revelation, confrontation; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static camera, classic noir framing with characters grouped around a central point

A group of men and one woman are gathered in a room; one man is identified by speech as Ronnie Jackson, wanted for murder. A record is requested to be played to reveal the killer, and someone notes the door is locked.

“Why, the young fella's a little mixed up, officer.” 82:25 · “I want you all to meet Ronnie Jackson, who's wanted by the state of California for the murder of one James Collins.” 82:27 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 1:22:24 (passage 1:22:20–1:22:45); US record: No renewal found

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