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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 172 · permalink

Private office

56:06–56:30 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; 3 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 56:1056:10Frame at 56:2056:20Frame at 56:2856:28

Play from 56:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 391–393. 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
  • man seated at desk, wearing suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man standing, wearing suit, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • Hamus (named at t:56:12): man seated, wearing judicial robes, older, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man seated at a desk speaks while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • The seated man continues speaking, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • A man in judicial robes is shown seated, smiling slightly. [frame:3]
Also said
“The whole country is aroused by it. Yeah, it's aroused the whole country.” 56:14 · “As is the case of the People vs. Mitchell, 186, New York 942. Like in the case of the People vs. Mitchell, 186, New York 942.” 56:19
Seen
desk, bookshelf, judicial robes, window blinds, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: legal drama, corruption, judicial authority; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing

A man seated at a desk speaks while another man stands nearby; a third man in judicial robes is shown in a separate shot. The transcript references a legal case and a sum of money, suggesting a courtroom or legal setting.

“25 grand ain't enough to fix a wrap like what this is.” 56:07 · “- Hamus? - It's Hamus.” 56:12 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 56:10 (passage 56:06–56:30); US record: No renewal found

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