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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 37 · permalink

Private office

11:10–11:29 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:1211:12Frame at 11:1811:18Frame at 11:2611:26

Play from 11:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 98–100. 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
  • Montez (named at t:11:15): woman, dark coat with fur collar, dark hair, earrings, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man, light suit, tie, pocket square, slicked-back hair, mid-40s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man holds matches and speaks to the woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“If you will just find my husband, I will be so grateful.” 11:17 · “I'll bring the matches.” 11:23
Seen
telephone, desk, matches, papers, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: bargaining, mystery, gender roles in detective fiction; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal framing, classic noir office setting

A woman in a dark coat speaks with a man in a suit inside an office; she asks him to find her husband, and he responds while holding matches. The setting includes a desk with a telephone and papers, and the interaction is framed as a negotiation.

“Look sister five grand is a lot of moolah you don't know anything. I” 11:10 · “We Montez are generous.” 11:15 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 11:12 (passage 11:10–11:29); US record: No renewal found

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