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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 44 · permalink

Private office

13:10–13:27 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:1413:14Frame at 13:2213:22

Play from 13:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 114–115. 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
  • man in light-colored suit, seen from back, adjusting coat of another man visible
  • man in trench coat, facing camera, adjusting tie, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man adjusts another man's coat near a window. [frame:1]
  • A man in a trench coat stands in a room adjusting his tie. [frame:2]
Also said
“Let me see what was that address.” 13:17 · “Well, the map.” 13:21
Seen
desk [frame:1], window [frame:1], trench coat [frame:2], tie [frame:2], hat [frame:2], coat rack [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: detective work, preparation, urban setting; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, classic noir framing with deep shadows and window backlighting

A man in a trench coat stands in a room with a desk and a window, while another man adjusts his coat near a doorway. The transcript includes lines about being a detective and checking a map.

“Ha!” 13:11 · “Well, what are you waiting for? You want to be a detective, don't you?” 13:12 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 13:14 (passage 13:10–13:27); US record: No renewal found

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