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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 48 · permalink

Street

14:05–14:49 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 14:0814:08Frame at 14:1514:15Frame at 14:4014:40Frame at 14:4614:46

Play from 14:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 121–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing hat, driving convertible visible
Seen happening
  • Man drives convertible on city street [frame:1]
  • Car drives through city street with tall buildings [frame:2]
  • Car approaches large stone estate with arches [frame:3]
  • Car parked on stone driveway near trees and another vehicle [frame:4]
Also said
“heights you know the kind of a house it looks like you can hunt quail in the hallways I didn't know it then but I was gonna be the quail beautiful day isn't it” 14:41
Seen
convertible car, city street with buildings and signs, stone mansion with arches, stone driveway, trees, second car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: noir-ish, suspenseful setup; themes: detective journey, wealthy estate as setting, narrator's subjective perspective; style notes: black-and-white, medium to wide shots, urban to estate transition, classic 1940s car and architecture

A man drives a convertible through city streets and arrives at a large estate. The transcript describes the journey to an upper-bracket estate and the narrator's reaction to the mansion.

“I was on my own. A missing husband in a dark-eyed dreamboat up to her gorgeous lips in trouble.” 14:06 · “What a parlay. And oh yeah, that mysterious map. The whole thing just like you'd read it in the detective magazine. I had my car for the address the doll gave me and it turns out this place is practically a sleeper jump from town. Anyway, later that afternoon I'm driving through the gates of one of those upper bracket estates down in the peninsula.” 14:11 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 14:08 (passage 14:05–14:49); US record: No renewal found

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