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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 121 · permalink

Private office

44:28–44:52 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 44:3344:33Frame at 44:4344:43Frame at 44:5044:50

Play from 44:28 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 51 · shots 282–284. 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
  • older man, dark coat, thin face, visible in shadow visible
  • Eddie (named at t:44:41): younger man, dark suit, white shirt, tie, neat hair, visible in medium shot visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat gestures toward another man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • The man in the dark coat speaks intensely to the man in the suit. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit looks troubled while listening. [frame:3]
Also said
“For thou shalt not, gang, the law and order brigade, they hate you.” 44:45 · “They've always hated you. How's your chance to tell them what you think of them?” 44:49
Seen
suit, dark coat, white pocket square, wall with framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: revenge, moral conflict, corruption; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, dramatic shadows

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, one in a dark coat and the other in a suit, engaged in a tense conversation. The transcript indicates one is urging the other, named Eddie, to confront people who sent him to prison.

“What about this? Throw it away. Go out there and tell them all.” 44:32 · “These people sent you to prison, Eddie. They're your enemies.” 44:41 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 44:33 (passage 44:28–44:52); US record: No renewal found

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