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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 84 · permalink

Road

28:32–28:48 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:3628:36Frame at 28:4328:43Frame at 28:4628:46

Play from 28:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 244–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and suit, visible in car interior, driving visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and suit, visible in car interior, holding a megaphone visible
  • Tom (named at t:28:34): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A convertible drives away from a gate on a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • A second car follows the convertible down the road. [frame:2]
  • Two men in hats are inside a car; one drives, the other holds a megaphone. [frame:3]
Seen
convertible car, sedan car, megaphone, hats, gate
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: chase, pursuit, urgent travel; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups inside car, wide exterior shots, high-contrast lighting

Two men in hats are inside a moving car, one driving and the other holding a megaphone; outside, a convertible drives away from a gate while another car follows. A voice urges someone named Tom to accelerate.

“Step on it, Tom. Step on it.” 28:34 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 28:36 (passage 28:32–28:48); US record: No renewal found

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