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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

16:27–16:51 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3016:30Frame at 16:3716:37Frame at 16:4316:43Frame at 16:4816:48

Play from 16:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 140–143. 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 dark coat, entering through doors visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing sequined top and earrings visible, audible
  • man in light suit and tie, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man enters a room through double doors. [frame:1]
  • A woman sings while looking forward. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues singing. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit is seated and looking forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“It isn't any crime to want to be beside you.” 16:51
Seen
double doors, sequined top, earrings, suit and tie, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and intimate; themes: romantic longing, solitude, musical performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, soft studio lighting, static framing

A man enters a room through double doors while a woman in a sequined top sings; a second man in a suit is shown seated. The transcript contains lyrics about being beside someone through a storm.

“I slide beside you through the winter storm.” 16:28 · “I'm forever warm I'm not stealing daydreams” 16:40 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 16:30 (passage 16:27–16:51); US record: No renewal found

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