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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 74 · permalink

Living room

25:27–26:32 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 25:3125:31Frame at 25:4625:46Frame at 26:0326:03Frame at 26:2826:28

Play from 25:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 213–219. 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
  • man in a light suit, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Miss Monte (named at t:25:47): woman in a long dark dress with shiny sleeves, dark hair styled up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man embraces the woman as she continues to plead for help. [frame:4]
Also said
“They've been telling you things. Oh, you're crazy. I mean...” 25:57 · “Please, say you'll help me.” 26:23
Seen
fireplace, floral arrangement on table, lamp with fringed shade, sofa with patterned upholstery, curtains with heavy pattern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: betrayal, pleading, romantic tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dramatic lighting with strong shadows, period costume

A man and a woman argue in a decorated room; the woman accuses the man of being influenced by others and pleads with him to help her. The man initially resists but eventually embraces her as she continues to plead.

“But Mr. MacLeod...” 25:29 · “Now, don't get upset, Miss Monte.” 25:47 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 25:31 (passage 25:27–26:32); US record: No renewal found

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