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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 36 · permalink

Private office

10:55–11:10 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:5710:57Frame at 11:0011:00Frame at 11:0611:06

Play from 10:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 95–97. 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:3
People
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a suit and tie, holding a cigarette visible
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:11:03): woman, dark hair, wearing dark clothing with fur collar, earrings visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a cigarette in his mouth while looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • A woman speaks with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands beside the man's desk, gesturing toward him while he holds a cigarette. [frame:3]
Also said
“I have no money.” 11:03 · “But this ring can be pawned anywhere for at least five thousand dollars.” 11:05
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], desk [frame:3], telephone [frame:3], ring [t:11:05], fur-collared coat [frame:2], earrings [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: financial desperation, negotiation under pressure, gendered power dynamics in a professional setting; style notes: black-and-white film noir style; tight close-ups and medium shots; high-contrast lighting; formal office setting

A man in a suit holds a cigarette while a woman in dark clothing speaks; she then stands beside his desk and gestures toward him. The woman mentions having no money but offers a ring that can be pawned for five thousand dollars.

“Who's they?” 10:57 · “That's what I want you to find out.” 10:58 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 10:57 (passage 10:55–11:10); US record: No renewal found

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