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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 8 · permalink

Jail

2:18–2:50 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:222:22Frame at 2:312:31Frame at 2:392:39Frame at 2:462:46

Play from 2:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 15–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in white shirt, standing, hands clasped visible, audible
  • Jackson (named at t:2:34): man in white shirt, seen from back and side, being escorted visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, holding papers, standing in corridor visible, audible
  • man in uniform with cap and tie, escorting Jackson visible
  • man in uniform with cap and tie, standing in cell doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt stands in a corridor with a metal door behind him. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt is escorted by a uniformed officer through a doorway. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark suit stands in a jail corridor holding papers, while a uniformed officer stands behind bars. [frame:3]
  • A man in a dark suit speaks to a man in a white shirt who is behind bars, flanked by two uniformed officers. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to grant you a special privilege not often given to a man in your position.” 2:35 · “Thanks, Warden.” 2:46
Seen
metal jail bars [frame:3], uniform with cap and tie [frame:2], dark suit [frame:3], papers [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: justice system, incarceration, media access; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, confined framing emphasizing institutional control

A man in a white shirt is escorted by uniformed officers through a jail corridor and into a cell while a man in a dark suit speaks to him. The dialogue indicates the man in the white shirt, named Jackson, is being granted a special privilege to speak to the press.

“Haven't even put in electricity.” 2:24 · “Jackson.” 2:34 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 2:22 (passage 2:18–2:50); US record: No renewal found

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