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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 76 · permalink

Garden

26:57–27:20 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0127:01Frame at 27:1327:13

Play from 26:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 224–225. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, fedora, holding coat over arm visible, audible
Seen happening
  • man stands on stone steps holding coat [frame:1]
  • man moves to peek around corner of stone structure [frame:2]
Also said
“I spot a high window around the corner of the house and decide to climb up and take a gander. I figure the only way to get the inside dope is from the outside.” 27:11 · “So I scamber up the hill in about three jumps like any other goat and take a sneak peek. And what do you know? The guy who told me he couldn't walk is out of his wheelchair and sashaying around chipper as a jaybird. Then I knew Carlotta wasn't nuts. I get out my brownie and I'm all set to snap exhibit A when Laughing Boy gets out of his chair and starts for the window. I figure he sees me.” 27:18
Seen
fedora, suit, coat, stone steps, stone structure, bushes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful, observational; themes: deception, surveillance, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor garden setting with stone architecture

A man in a suit and fedora stands on stone steps outdoors, then moves to peek around a corner. He narrates spotting a high window and climbing a hill to observe someone inside who was previously thought to be unable to walk.

“For my car, when I realized me and my gad had parted company, holster and all, I figured little Miss Screwball must have lifted it when she kissed me.” 26:58 · “I started to go back for it, but I changed my mind.” 27:06 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 27:01 (passage 26:57–27:20); US record: No renewal found

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