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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

17:16–18:44 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 17:2017:20Frame at 17:4517:45Frame at 18:0018:00Frame at 18:4318:43

Play from 17:16 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 23 · shots 147–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a suit and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:17:27): woman, 20s to 30s, wearing a patterned dress with earrings, hair in an updo visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand close, facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks while the man listens intently. [frame:2]
  • The man gestures with his hand while speaking to the woman. [frame:3]
  • The man leans over a chair while the woman sits holding flowers. [frame:4]
Also said
“It belongs to a Major Simon Montague,” 18:18 · “He was the former business partner of the Barons.” 18:21
Seen
suit [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1], earrings [frame:1], flowers [frame:4], chair [frame:4], fireplace [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: mystery, family secrets, gender roles, trust; style notes: close two-shots and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s setting

A man and a woman are in a room, speaking closely; the woman mentions her uncle's important mission and his connection to Major Montague. The man questions her about her uncle's enemies and the house they are in.

“Please listen. My uncle came to this country on a very important mission.” 17:45 · “Did your uncle have any enemies?” 18:09 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 17:20 (passage 17:16–18:44); US record: No renewal found

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