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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 49 · permalink

Sidewalk

14:49–15:11 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 15:0015:00

Play from 14:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 21 · shots 126–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
day evidence: t:15:02
People
  • man wearing a trench coat and hat, adjusting his hat visible
  • man in a suit and bowler hat, carrying a coat over his arm visible
Seen happening
  • One man adjusts his hat while walking. [frame:1]
  • Another man walks beside him carrying a coat over his arm. [frame:1]
Also said
“But it's late.” 15:05 · “*whistling*” 15:09
Seen
trench coat, bowler hat, suit, coat (carried over arm)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: daytime stroll, casual dialogue, urban setting; style notes: medium shot, outdoor daylight, classic black-and-white framing

Two men walk outdoors in daylight; one adjusts his hat while the other carries a coat over his arm. The transcript includes remarks about the time of day and a whistling sound.

“Fine.” 14:57 · “It is day, though.” 15:02 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 15:00 (passage 14:49–15:11); US record: No renewal found

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