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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 90 · permalink

Road

29:02–29:26 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; 1 name 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 29:0429:04Frame at 29:0829:08Frame at 29:1229:12Frame at 29:2329:23

Play from 29:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 252–257. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a suit, tie, and fedora hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man drives a convertible car on a road. [frame:1]
  • A convertible car is shown driving on a road. [frame:2]
  • A dark car is shown driving on a road. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit and fedora continues driving, looking ahead. [frame:4]
Seen
convertible car [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], steering wheel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: chase, speed, automobile culture; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and wide shots of moving vehicles, high-contrast lighting

A man in a suit and fedora drives a convertible car along a road, with shots alternating between his face and the moving vehicle. The transcript includes the line 'Too fast for him. Hot rod.'

“Too fast for him. Hot rod.” 29:04 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 29:04 (passage 29:02–29:26); US record: No renewal found

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