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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 72 · permalink

Living room

24:28–25:02 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:3224:32Frame at 24:4924:49Frame at 24:5424:54Frame at 25:0025:00

Play from 24:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 204–209. 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, frame:2
People
  • Dorothy Lamour (named at t:24:33): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark, shiny dress with puffed shoulders visible, audible
  • man, wearing a light-colored suit, seen from behind visible, audible
  • man, wearing a dark suit, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in a light suit stand facing each other in a living room. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light suit sits down opposite the woman, who remains standing. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light suit speaks, looking directly at the woman. [frame:3]
  • The man in the light suit continues speaking, gesturing with his hand. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, he's safe, all right. I mean, he's safe all right. But he's not safe.” 24:46 · “But I feel he's in great danger.” 24:55
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], floral-patterned curtains [frame:1], ornate rug [frame:1], low table with flowers [frame:1], armchair [frame:2], pocket square [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: deception, danger, family obligation, emotional distress; style notes: medium shots and close-ups in a dimly lit, ornate interior; high-contrast lighting typical of film noir; characters framed to emphasize dialogue and emotional reaction

A woman and two men are in a living room, discussing a man named Baron Monte who is described as being in danger despite being 'safe'. The conversation is tense, with one man seated and speaking directly to the woman.

“I just spoke to my uncle. That's funny. So did I.” 24:28 · “My uncle, Baron Monte.” 24:33 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 24:32 (passage 24:28–25:02); US record: No renewal found

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