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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 162 · permalink

Street

51:54–52:15 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:5551:55Frame at 52:0352:03Frame at 52:0652:06Frame at 52:1252:12

Play from 51:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 362–367. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark uniform with high collar, smiling, standing visible
  • man in suit and hat, standing next to woman, gesturing visible
  • woman in dark suit and hat, carrying bag, gesturing visible
  • man in taxi driver's cap, inside taxi, visible through window visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark uniform stands smiling. [frame:1]
  • A taxi driver leans out of his cab and speaks to a man in a suit standing beside it. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a hat gestures while standing between the man in the uniform and the man in the suit. [frame:3]
  • The interior of the taxi is shown with the driver visible. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, ma'am.” 52:15 · “Come on. Let's take this from.” 52:05
Seen
taxi [frame:2], hat [frame:3], suit [frame:2], uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: urban transportation, social hierarchy, dialogue-driven interaction; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s urban setting

A man in a dark uniform and a man in a suit stand outside a taxi while a woman in a hat gestures; inside the taxi, a driver is visible. The transcript includes dialogue about getting back in the cab and a destination, Cranel Court.

“Hey, what's the idea? Get back in your cab or I'll slug you. I don't get excited.” 51:59 · “Come on, Cranel Court, baby.” 52:14 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 51:55 (passage 51:54–52:15); US record: No renewal found

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