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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 31 · permalink

Private office

9:24–9:43 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 9:339:33Frame at 9:429:42

Play from 9:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 83–84. 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
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:9:33): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark coat, medium build visible, audible
  • man, wearing a light-colored suit, short hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in an office speaking to a man. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman face each other near a desk with bottles and papers. [frame:2]
Also said
“I need a detective.” 9:40 · “Please say that you'll help me.” 9:42
Seen
desk [frame:1], bottles [frame:1], papers [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], painting on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: detective genre, female求助, office confrontation; style notes: medium two-shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with props suggesting a detective's office

A woman in a dark coat speaks to a man in a light suit inside an office. She asks him to help her as a detective, and he listens while standing near a desk with bottles and papers.

“I suppose you wonder why I act this way.” 9:33 · “Oh no, every girl who comes in here does that.” 9:35 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 9:33 (passage 9:24–9:43); US record: No renewal found

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