Public Reel

Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 186 · permalink

Private office

59:15–59:31 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:2359:23

Play from 59:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 420–420. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a suit, standing visible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a hat and dark dress, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands and looks down at a seated woman in a furnished room. [frame:1]
Also said
“This boy is years, honey.” 59:27 · “lived in the slums.” 59:28
Seen
armchair [frame:1], desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1], potted plant [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, contemplative; themes: psychological analysis, childhood trauma, social class; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high-contrast lighting, mid-century interior design

A man stands in a well-furnished room while a woman sits in a chair; they discuss a boy's background and possible psychological causes. The setting appears to be a private office or living room with mid-century decor.

“It isn't as simple as diagnosing a case of measles.” 59:17 · “Could be a throwback to his formative years.” 59:23 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Angel on My Shoulder (1946) at 59:23 (passage 59:15–59:31); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/angel_on_my_shoulder/b186.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite