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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 35 · permalink

Private office

10:26–10:55 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:3110:31Frame at 10:4510:45Frame at 10:5410:54

Play from 10:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 14 · shots 92–94. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie, smoking a cigarette, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:10:30): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress or suit, standing, appears concerned visible, audible
Also said
“He had disappeared.” 10:47 · “If I go to the police, they'll kill him.” 10:53
Seen
wheelchair [t:10:29], desk [frame:2], typewriter [frame:2], cigarette [frame:1], papers [frame:1], office chair [frame:2], file cabinet [frame:3], window with bars [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: crime, fear, marital distress, mystery; style notes: classic noir lighting with high contrast, medium close-ups and two-shots, static camera framing

A woman reports her husband's disappearance from a wheelchair at a dock, fearing for his life if police are involved. A man in a suit listens while smoking and reviewing papers in an office setting.

“I'm in trouble.” 10:26 · “My husband is an invalid.” 10:30 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 10:31 (passage 10:26–10:55); US record: No renewal found

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