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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 88 · permalink

Vehicle interior

28:56–28:59 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; 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 28:5828:58

Play from 28:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 250–250. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark suit and fedora, driving, visible visible
  • man wearing dark suit and fedora, seated beside driver, visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a car, one driving, the other speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
car interior [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: action, pursuit, male camaraderie; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir

Two men in hats are inside a vehicle; one is driving while the other speaks. The transcript indicates they are taking a shortcut and the driver is told to hang on.

“Come, take this shortcut. Hang on.” 28:57 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 28:58 (passage 28:56–28:59); US record: No renewal found

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