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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 169 · permalink

Private office

55:16–55:31 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:1855:18Frame at 55:2155:21Frame at 55:2755:27

Play from 55:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 78 · shots 384–386. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing judicial robes, seated in a high-backed chair visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated, hands clasped visible
Seen happening
  • A man in judicial robes is seated in an office with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit is seated with hands clasped, looking down. [frame:2]
  • The man in judicial robes is shown again, looking forward. [frame:3]
Also said
“Amen.” 55:22 · “But Eddie Cagle now.” 55:29
Seen
bookshelves [frame:1], judicial robe [frame:1], high-backed chair [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: corruption, judicial integrity, legal drama; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing

Two men are shown in a room with bookshelves; one is in judicial robes, the other in a suit. The transcript discusses attempts to influence Judge Parker and mentions Eddie Cagle.

“Or they wouldn't have spent all that money trying to square things before coming up for trial.” 55:16 · “Did they try to get to Judge Parker?” 55:20 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 55:18 (passage 55:16–55:31); US record: No renewal found

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