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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 61 · permalink

Living room

19:52–20:06 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; 3 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 19:5619:56Frame at 20:0320:03

Play from 19:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 165–166. 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:1
People
  • Mr. Craig (named at t:19:52): older man, balding, wearing dark suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • Mr. McLeod (named at t:20:03): younger man, wearing light-colored suit visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • Smoke rises near a doorway in a room with two men facing each other. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand close, one holding a small object, in a room with a lamp and furniture. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now we'll quit playing possible. Yeah.” 20:01 · “How do you do, Mr. McLeod? Well, how are you?” 20:03
Seen
lamp, armchair, smoke, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: confrontation, formal address, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, chiaroscuro lighting with strong shadows and a lamp as key light

Two men in suits stand in a dimly lit room with furniture and a lamp; one speaks to the other, who is addressed as Mr. McLeod. Smoke rises near a doorway in the background.

“Excuse me, Mr. Craig.” 19:52 · “All right, sir.” 19:59 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 19:56 (passage 19:52–20:06); US record: No renewal found

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