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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 265 · permalink

Jail

1:24:34–1:25:04 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:491:24:49

Play from 1:24:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 96 · shots 747–747. 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 a striped undershirt and dark pants, standing inside a jail cell, appears distressed visible
  • man in a light uniform with cap, standing outside the cell, facing p1 visible
  • man in a dark suit and glasses, back to camera, standing outside the cell visible
  • man in a light uniform with cap, standing to the right of p2, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped undershirt stands inside a jail cell while two uniformed officers and a man in a suit stand outside. [frame:1]
  • One officer gestures toward the man in the cell while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
jail cell bars [frame:1], striped undershirt [frame:1], uniforms with caps [frame:1], dark suit and glasses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and coercive; themes: confinement, authority vs. individual, distress; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing emphasizing confinement and authority

A man in a striped undershirt stands inside a jail cell while two uniformed officers and a man in a suit stand outside; one officer speaks to the man in the cell. The transcript includes fragmented lines suggesting coercion and distress, including a reference to 'Daddy Jackson' and a child's prayer.

“Come here son. You and I are going to take a little walk. Daddy Jackson. You can take it. Now get some water. Get some water. Now I lay me down asleep. I've... I... Oh they got you too. You look alive. Yes.” 84:42 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 1:24:49 (passage 1:24:34–1:25:04); US record: No renewal found

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