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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 75 · permalink

Living room

26:32–26:57 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3626:36Frame at 26:4526:45Frame at 26:5226:52Frame at 26:5626:56

Play from 26:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 220–223. 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 light-colored suit, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman in shiny long dress, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, mid-adult, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are embracing in a room. [frame:1]
  • The woman takes an object from the man's hand. [frame:2]
  • The man covers his face with his hand while the woman holds his arm. [frame:3]
  • A man in dark clothing walks through a garden or overgrown area. [frame:4]
Also said
“Here, let me take this.” 26:45 · “Well, six o'clock already. Well, I... Well, so long.” 26:52
Seen
shiny long dress, light-colored suit, dark suit, curtains, lamp, garden or overgrown area
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and tense; themes: romantic tension, secret mission, farewell; style notes: black-and-white, studio lighting, medium close-ups, period costume

A man and a woman embrace and speak in a richly decorated room; the woman takes an object from the man, who then leaves. A separate shot shows a man in dark clothing walking through a garden or overgrown area.

“Mama knows best.” 26:33 · “Darling, Promise me you'll guard the map with your life.” 26:36 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 26:36 (passage 26:32–26:57); US record: No renewal found

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