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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 5 · permalink

Jail

1:12–1:45 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; 4 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 1:241:24Frame at 1:411:41

Play from 1:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 5 · shots 10–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in uniform, standing outside a cell, holding keys visible
  • man in a light shirt, seated inside a cell, facing the bars visible
  • Jackson (named at t:1:27): man in a dark suit and glasses, standing outside the cell, facing p2 visible, audible
  • man in a light shirt, standing inside the cell behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands outside a jail cell talking to a man inside. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light shirt talks to a man in a suit. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh sure glad to see you warden so the governor came through with that stay I knew he would he's a very good guy sorry Jackson” 1:29 · “No word from the governor.” 1:36
Seen
jail cell bars, keys, wad of money, glasses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: impending execution, bureaucratic delay, last moments; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups emphasizing facial expressions, static camera framing

A man in a jail cell speaks with a warden and a guard while another man stands outside the cell. The dialogue suggests a last meal and a stay of execution that has not been granted.

“Like a soldier, my boy. Like a soldier. No ketchup?” 1:21 · “This is the worst last meal I ever had.” 1:24 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 1:24 (passage 1:12–1:45); US record: No renewal found

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