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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 9 · permalink

Jail

2:50–3:36 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:512:51Frame at 3:033:03Frame at 3:203:20Frame at 3:323:32

Play from 2:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 19–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hat and patterned coat, visible from side visible, audible
  • Jackson (named at t:2:53): man in white shirt, behind bars, holding cigarette visible, audible
  • man in uniform with cap and tie, standing near cell bars visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing outside cell, holding hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman approaches Jackson’s jail cell. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks to Jackson through the bars. [frame:2]
  • Jackson holds a cigarette while talking to the woman and officer. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit joins the group outside the cell. [frame:4]
Also said
“Tough to light a cigarette, that's all.” 3:23 · “Woman.” 3:31
Seen
jail bars [frame:1], cigarette [frame:3], uniform cap [frame:1], dark suit [frame:4], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: justice, personal sacrifice, romantic entanglement; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, confined framing

A man named Jackson is in a jail cell, speaking with visitors including a woman and a uniformed officer. The conversation includes reflections on his situation and a mention of a woman being the cause of his troubles.

“Oh, Mr. Jackson, I think you're wonderful.” 2:53 · “Well, I ain't exactly a cream puff.” 2:59 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 2:51 (passage 2:50–3:36); US record: No renewal found

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