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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 164 · permalink

Vehicle interior

52:34–53:03 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:3852:38Frame at 52:4852:48Frame at 52:5752:57Frame at 53:0253:02

Play from 52:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 77 · shots 369–375. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and fedora, seated in back, holding papers visible
  • woman in dark hat and suit, seated in back visible
  • man in dark coat, seated in back, facing forward visible
  • Bob (named at t:53:00): man in suit and tie, driving visible
Also said
“Don't worry Eddie. I'll be there.” 52:51 · “You be sure you don't bungle it this time. Yes, sir. I know all about trials.” 52:55
Seen
fedora hat, suit and tie, papers, car interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: legal intrigue, threats, power dynamics; style notes: tight framing inside a car, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Three people are seated in a vehicle, discussing a legal case and a person named Smiley. One man, addressed as Bob, is told to ensure he does not fail again in a trial involving Parker.

“Who is Smiley, dear? I don't see his name in these documents. When I finish with him, the only place you'll find his name will be on a tombstone.” 52:36 · “Well, what is he to do with the Bentley trial?” 52:44 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 52:38 (passage 52:34–53:03); US record: No renewal found

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