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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 185 · permalink

Private office

58:56–59:15 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:0659:06

Play from 58:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 419–419. 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, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, medium build, dark hair, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits and looks off-camera with a serious expression. [frame:1]
Also said
“He's gotten worse.” 59:09 · “What is it, Matt? What's happened to Fred?” 59:13
Seen
desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: identity, change, concern; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-up, static framing

A man in a dark suit is seated in a dimly lit interior, looking off-camera with a tense expression. Dialogue suggests concern over someone named Fred's changed behavior.

“If you had a body, I'd tear it apart.” 58:57 · “You should see him.” 59:08 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 59:06 (passage 58:56–59:15); US record: No renewal found

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