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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 153 · permalink

Living room

49:22–49:44 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:2649:26Frame at 49:3549:35Frame at 49:3849:38Frame at 49:4249:42

Play from 49:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 342–347. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding glass, smoking cigar visible
  • hand pouring from bottle, wearing white shirt cuff visible
  • older man with glasses, bow tie, dark suit visible
  • woman with styled hair, dark dress, light collar visible
Seen happening
  • A hand pours liquor into a glass held by a man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit drinks from the glass while holding a cigar. [frame:2]
  • An older man and a woman stand side by side, looking toward the camera. [frame:3]
  • The older man and woman remain standing, expression unchanged. [frame:4]
Also said
“I ain't started yet.” 49:33 · “Oh, you mean scrap.” 49:42
Seen
glass [frame:1], liquor bottle [frame:1], cigar [frame:2], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], patterned sofa [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social tension, alcohol consumption, interpersonal conflict; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with domestic decor

A man in a suit drinks from a glass while another person's hand pours liquor; an older man and a woman stand together in a room with framed pictures. The transcript includes dialogue about having had enough excitement and being told to 'take a powder'.

“Want a shot?” 49:29 · “I wish you wouldn't, dear. You've had enough excitement for one day.” 49:30 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 49:26 (passage 49:22–49:44); US record: No renewal found

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