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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

20:31–21:03 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; 5 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 20:3520:35Frame at 20:4120:41Frame at 20:4820:48Frame at 20:5820:58

Play from 20:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 170–173. 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 a suit, seated at a desk, mid-adult visible
  • man in a tuxedo, standing near doorway, mid-adult visible
  • man in a suit, standing near desk, mid-adult visible
  • Baron Montaigne (named at t:20:37): man in a tuxedo, seated in a wheelchair, mid-adult visible
  • man in a light suit, walking away from group, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks away from the group. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm not a mirage.” 20:47 · “I don't get it.” 20:53
Seen
desk [frame:1], wheelchair [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1], suit [frame:1], fireplace [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: identity, deception, mystery; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes

In a dimly lit room, a man in a suit sits at a desk while others stand or sit nearby; dialogue references a 'Mr. McCloud' and a 'Baron Montaigne', and a character insists he is not a mirage. A man in a wheelchair is present, and another man in a suit walks away from the group.

“You pardon us gentlemen? Certainly. This is Mr. McCloud.” 20:34 · “Mr. McLeod, I'd like you to meet... The man in the picture, Baron Montaigne. How do you do?” 20:37 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 20:35 (passage 20:31–21:03); US record: No renewal found

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