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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 166 · permalink

Vehicle interior

53:21–53:33 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 53:2753:27

Play from 53:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 379–379. 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 wearing a dark hat and suit, visible in profile visible
  • woman wearing a dark hat, holding papers, visible in partial profile visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing dark coat, facing camera visible, audible
Also said
“And then we shoot out to St. Louis.” 53:31
Seen
papers [frame:1], hats [frame:1], dark coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, travel, planning; style notes: tight framing on three characters in a car, high-contrast black and white lighting, static camera

Three people are seated in a vehicle interior; one speaks about tricks to get someone named Smiley and mentions traveling to St. Louis. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting.

“I'll show you a few tricks on how to get Smiley. Tricks you never even dreamed of.” 53:22 · “Sure, sure. I'd go through with it, trial or nothing.” 53:27 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 53:27 (passage 53:21–53:33); US record: No renewal found

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