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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 17 · permalink

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4:58–5:35 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; 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 5:025:02Frame at 5:105:10Frame at 5:225:22Frame at 5:325:32

Play from 4:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 18–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Brandon (named at t:5:14): man in dark suit, visible in profile or silhouette, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, visible in profile or silhouette, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • woman in light-colored dress with necklace, visible in silhouette visible
Also said
“The cops should have picked up the driver of that car. Not me.” 5:23 · “300 odd years.” 5:33
Seen
chains [frame:3], dark suits [frame:1], light-colored dress with necklace [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and surreal; themes: moral judgment, afterlife, absurdity; style notes: high-contrast lighting, heavy use of smoke or fog, silhouetted figures, theatrical staging

Two men are shown in a dim, smoky environment with chains visible; one speaks about being wrongly accused after a car accident. The dialogue references a character named Brandon and a store with an implausibly long history.

“This is the end.” 5:04 · “I'm walking down the street minding my own business. I step off the curb. Car comes tearing around the corner against the red light.” 5:15 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 5:02 (passage 4:58–5:35); US record: No renewal found

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