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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 171 · permalink

Private office

55:45–56:06 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; 1 name 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 55:5055:50Frame at 56:0156:01

Play from 55:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 78 · shots 389–390. 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, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a room with paneled walls. [frame:1]
  • The same man sits at a desk holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:2]
Also said
“Telepathic transmission.” 55:54 · “I used to dish out plenty of dough myself when I put in a fix.” 55:59
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, paneled wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, communication, past crimes; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a dark suit is shown in two frames: first standing, then seated at a desk holding a telephone receiver. The transcript includes dialogue about dialing a number, telepathic transmission, and past dealings with money.

“What'll I do?” 55:45 · “Well, you just dial spring 74242.” 55:48 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 55:50 (passage 55:45–56:06); US record: No renewal found

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