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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 156 · permalink

Living room

50:24–51:11 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2850:28Frame at 50:4050:40Frame at 50:5850:58Frame at 51:0951:09

Play from 50:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 351–354. 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, mid-30s, dark suit, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Rosie (named at t:51:03): woman, mid-30s, dark dress, blonde hair in updo, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man yawns and holds his neck with both hands. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman stand near a table, facing each other; the man holds a glass. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman stand close, looking at each other; the man holds the woman's arm. [frame:3]
  • The man raises his arm to stop the woman from leaving; she looks at him. [frame:4]
Also said
“You know perfectly well I don't live here.” 50:56 · “I am going home in the suit. Do the better. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hey. Darling. Wait a minute. Oh Fred, I told you. That's all right. I'm all right.” 51:05
Seen
armchair with floral upholstery, glass, table with lamp and glassware, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: domestic conflict, identity and belonging, gender roles; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, classic 1940s studio set design

A man and a woman argue in a furnished room; the man tries to stop the woman from leaving, and she insists she is going home. The man appears distressed and at one point holds the woman's arm.

“What kind of a body did that luck slip me any up?” 50:38 · “You feel good. I've got to get home, dear.” 50:48 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 50:28 (passage 50:24–51:11); US record: No renewal found

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