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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 38 · permalink

Private office

11:29–11:39 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:3011:30Frame at 11:3511:35

Play from 11:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 101–102. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, standing near doorway visible
  • man in light suit, medium build, standing at desk visible
  • woman in dark coat, medium build, leaning over desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands near a sign for the McCloud Detective Agency. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light suit and a woman in a dark coat are at a desk in the office. [frame:2]
Also said
“They mustn't find me here.” 11:33 · “- Well, I don't hear anything. - Be at this address.” 11:36
Seen
McCloud Detective Agency sign, desk with papers and objects, wood-paneled walls
On screen
McCloud Detective Agency
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: secrecy, detective work, urgency; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, classic 1940s film noir office set

A man in a dark suit stands near a sign for the McCloud Detective Agency while another man in a light suit stands at a desk with a woman in a dark coat. The transcript includes lines about not being found and giving an address.

“What's the matter?” 11:31 · “Listen.” 11:32 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 11:30 (passage 11:29–11:39); US record: No renewal found

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