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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 170 · permalink

Private office

55:31–55:45 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3355:33Frame at 55:4055:40

Play from 55:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 387–388. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated, hands clasped, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, partially visible, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk with hands clasped. [frame:1]
  • Two men are in an office; one sits at a desk, the other stands near a window. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, what's his last name?” 55:37 · “I want to call him up and have him come here quick before the trial. No, he's too slow for that.” 55:41
Seen
desk, lamp, bookshelf, window with blinds, telephone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: legal urgency, miscommunication, office power dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and two-shot framing, studio lighting with high contrast

A man in a suit sits at a desk in an office while another man stands nearby; dialogue references a person named Big Hattie and a pending trial. No names are assigned to the visible individuals based on the transcript.

“Hey, who's pregnant, Doe?” 55:33 · “A man known as Big Hattie.” 55:35 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 55:33 (passage 55:31–55:45); US record: No renewal found

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