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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 104 · permalink

Private office

39:53–40:15 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:0440:04

Play from 39:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 40 · shots 236–236. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing behind desk, holding phone receiver visible, audible
  • man in fedora and suit, standing near desk visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing to right of p2 visible
  • man in suit, seated in foreground, back to camera visible
  • man in suit, seated left foreground, back to camera visible
Also said
“My wife.” 39:59 · “I want to hear that the judge has taken a turn for the worst.” 40:02
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], blinds on window [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: power, corruption, political ambition; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, chiaroscuro lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a suit speaks on the phone in a room with several other men; one man in a fedora stands near him. The transcript includes dialogue about a judge's condition and a political campaign.

“Hello?” 39:56 · “Hello, sweetheart.” 39:57 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 Angel on My Shoulder (1946) at 40:04 (passage 39:53–40:15); US record: No renewal found

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