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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 106 · permalink

Theatre

40:29–40:45 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:3140:31Frame at 40:3440:34Frame at 40:3940:39Frame at 40:4240:42

Play from 40:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 238–242. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, appears mid-30s to 40s visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat with floral decoration, appears 30s visible
  • older man with receding hairline, glasses, wearing suit visible
  • older man with balding head, wearing suit visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing dark high-necked garment visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a stage facing an audience. [frame:1]
  • Several men in suits are seen talking in a group. [frame:3]
  • A man with slicked-back hair looks seriously at the camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“I have to go.” 40:34
Seen
theatre seats [frame:1], stage [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], floral decoration on hat [frame:2], EXIT sign [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: public performance, social interaction among formally dressed individuals, moment of departure or decision; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, stage lighting focused on subjects, formal attire suggests a public or ceremonial event

A man in a suit stands on a stage before a seated audience, then appears in a close-up with a serious expression. Other men in suits are seen conversing nearby. A woman in a hat is briefly visible beside the main man.

“Hey.” 40:29 · “Look at that turner.” 40:31 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 40:31 (passage 40:29–40:45); US record: No renewal found

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