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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 263 · permalink

Jail

1:23:53–1:24:08 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:571:23:57Frame at 1:24:021:24:02Frame at 1:24:051:24:05

Play from 1:23:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 741–743. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and tie, gripping jail bars, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated inside cell, medium build visible
  • man in light-colored suit and fedora, seated inside cell, medium build visible
  • woman in dark hat and light dress, seated outside cell, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man grips the jail bars while others sit inside the cell. [frame:1]
  • The man at the bars gestures while speaking to others inside the cell. [frame:2]
  • The man at the bars looks down while the woman outside looks toward him. [frame:3]
Seen
jail bars [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light-colored suit [frame:1], dark hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: confinement, legal proceedings, unresolved outcomes; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, dramatic lighting emphasizing jail bars and facial expressions

A group of people are inside a jail cell, with one man gripping the bars and another seated nearby. A woman sits outside the cell, looking toward the man at the bars. The transcript mentions a trial and someone named Carlotta not showing up.

“Well, that's about it. You know the rest. Quick trial. Carlotta never showing up. Nice deal. Win it.” 83:55 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 1:23:57 (passage 1:23:53–1:24:08); US record: No renewal found

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