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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 67 · permalink

Private office

22:30–22:45 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:3122:31Frame at 22:3622:36Frame at 22:4322:43

Play from 22:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 188–190. 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 tuxedo, middle-aged, seated, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in light suit, middle-aged, seated, listening visible
  • man in dark suit, middle-aged, standing close, listening visible
  • man in patterned tie, middle-aged, seated, listening visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are shown listening intently to the speaker. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light suit gestures while speaking about dinner etiquette. [frame:3]
Also said
“My idea is to break down her fear with suggestive therapy...” 22:35 · “Well, does she snap her cap very often?” 22:40
Seen
lamp with large shade, stack of papers, tuxedo with bow tie, suits and ties
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: therapy, social etiquette, male-dominated discussion; style notes: medium close-ups, chiaroscuro lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a tuxedo speaks in a dimly lit room while three men in suits listen and react. The conversation involves breaking down someone's fear through therapy and mentions dinner etiquette.

“No, no, señor.” 22:31 · “It would be too severe a mental shock.” 22:32 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 22:31 (passage 22:30–22:45); US record: No renewal found

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