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My Favorite Brunette · Beat 97 · permalink

Sidewalk

31:01–31:11 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0431:04Frame at 31:0931:09

Play from 31:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 277–278. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seen from behind, being doused with water visible
  • man in light-colored coat, standing on sidewalk, watching visible
  • person visible in window, pouring water visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a window pours water onto a man below. [frame:1]
  • The drenched man stumbles backward near a fence and trash cans. [frame:2]
Seen
brick building [frame:1], window [frame:1], string lights [frame:1], fence [frame:2], trash cans [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic; themes: prank, retribution, urban night; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, medium shots, outdoor night scene with practical lights

A man is doused with water from a window at night while another man watches. The scene takes place outdoors near a brick building with string lights visible.

“That'll cool you off, Joe. Oh.” 31:04 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 31:04 (passage 31:01–31:11); US record: No renewal found

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