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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 167 · permalink

Vehicle interior

53:33–54:15 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5453:54

Play from 53:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 380–380. 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 suit, tie, and fedora hat, mid-40s, medium build visible, audible
  • woman wearing a dark hat and collared dress, 30s, fair complexion visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit facing each other in a car, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“It is strictly between me and Smiley.” 53:45 · “And get this. He said he was going to rush through at the trial, then how quick the St. Louisian gets spiley?” 54:10
Seen
fedora hat, dark suit and tie, woman's hat and collared dress, car interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, romantic tension, legal intrigue; style notes: tight two-shot framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume, intimate vehicle setting

A man and a woman are seated inside a vehicle, speaking about a trip to St. Louis and a vacation, with references to someone named Smiley and a trial. The dialogue suggests secrecy and urgency, and the woman expresses fear at the man’s tone.

“What will we do in St. Louis, dear?” 53:34 · “You frighten me when you talk like this.” 53:43 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 53:54 (passage 53:33–54:15); US record: No renewal found

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