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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 40 · permalink

Hallway

12:19–12:45 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2312:23Frame at 12:3012:30Frame at 12:3712:37Frame at 12:4312:43

Play from 12:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 107–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, tie, and pocket square, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mabel (named at t:12:26): woman in dark dress and apron, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult, standing in hallway background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit adjusts his tie while standing in a hallway. [frame:1]
  • A woman enters the hallway and approaches the man in the light suit. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light suit gestures toward the woman as they stand together. [frame:3]
  • The woman walks away down the hallway while the man in the dark suit watches from the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“When everybody's gone. No charge.” 12:36 · “Anytime.” 12:43
Seen
wall-mounted telephone [frame:1], decorative wall panel [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], handbag [frame:3], water fountain [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: casual interaction, professional setting, humor through pricing; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man in a light suit speaks to a woman in a dark dress in a hallway; another man in a dark suit stands in the background. The woman enters the hallway, and the man in the light suit gestures toward her while speaking.

“Oh, it's you, Mabel.” 12:26 · “Come in the studio some night after hours and I'll take your picture.” 12:33 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 12:23 (passage 12:19–12:45); US record: No renewal found

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