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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 62 · permalink

Living room

20:06–20:31 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1120:11Frame at 20:1920:19Frame at 20:2720:27

Play from 20:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 167–169. 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:2
People
  • Sam (named at t:20:18): older man, wearing a dark tuxedo with bow tie, balding, heavier build visible, audible
  • Craig (named at t:20:07): younger man, wearing a light-colored double-breasted suit, neat haircut, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Sam gestures toward a doorway and tells Craig to follow. [frame:3]
Also said
“Sam just call me Sam.” 20:18 · “I may have a little surprise for you.” 20:29
Seen
double-breasted suit [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:2], armchair [frame:2], side table with lamp [frame:2], wooden door with panels [frame:3], flower arrangement [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet slightly playful, with a paternal tone emerging; themes: mentorship, professional identity, father-son dynamic; style notes: classic black-and-white studio lighting, medium shots emphasizing dialogue, static camera with slight framing shifts to follow movement

Two men converse in a well-furnished room; one identifies himself as Sam and offers to help the other with detective work. The younger man follows the older one toward a doorway as the older man mentions a surprise.

“Oh, Craig is the name. I mean, Craig. I was... I was a shipboard and...” 20:07 · “You're a private detective. Oh, yes. Yes, yes.” 20:15 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 20:11 (passage 20:06–20:31); US record: No renewal found

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