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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 69 · permalink

Living room

23:39–23:54 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; 4 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 23:4423:44Frame at 23:4823:48Frame at 23:5123:51

Play from 23:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 196–198. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit and bow tie visible
  • younger man, wearing light-colored suit, back to camera in frame:1 visible
  • Collada (named at t:23:46): woman, dark hair, wearing long shiny gown visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing light suit and tie, looking off-camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit looks off-camera with a neutral expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, come in, Collada, dear.” 23:46 · “Nutty as a fruitcake, and with all that beautiful frosting.” 23:49
Seen
tufted sofa [frame:1], table lamp with patterned base [frame:1], ornate wall tapestry [frame:1], glass-paneled door [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sardonic and theatrical; themes: social interaction, character introduction; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shots, ornate set design

Two men and a woman are present in a dimly lit room with ornate decor. One man speaks to another before a woman enters, and a third man reacts with a look.

“Thank you, Kisnick.” 23:40 · “Now you watch yourself, son.” 23:42 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 23:44 (passage 23:39–23:54); US record: No renewal found

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