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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 94 · permalink

Road

29:51–30:14 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:5829:58Frame at 30:0730:07Frame at 30:1130:11Frame at 30:1330:13

Play from 29:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 263–266. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and suit, driving visible
  • man wearing a bowler hat, seated passenger, holding a glass visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat holds a glass in the passenger seat. [frame:2]
  • The driver raises his hand to his face. [frame:3]
  • The passenger raises his glass. [frame:4]
Seen
car [frame:1], fedora [frame:3], bowler hat [frame:2], glass [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: nocturnal journey, male companionship, sudden reaction; style notes: low-key lighting, close-ups on faces, night driving scene

Two men are in a car at night; one drives while the other holds a glass. A reaction shot shows one man raising his hand. The transcript includes an exclamation. No names are spoken in the supplied lines.

“Oh, my God.” 30:04 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 29:58 (passage 29:51–30:14); US record: No renewal found

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