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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 194 · permalink

Private office

1:02:27–1:02:57 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:361:02:36Frame at 1:02:481:02:48Frame at 1:02:531:02:53Frame at 1:02:551:02:55

Play from 1:02:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 441–444. 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 in dark suit, light shirt, tie, and campaign button; mid-30s to 40s; average build visible, audible
  • Smiley (named at t:62:39): man in pinstripe suit, fedora, and patterned tie; mid-30s to 40s; average build visible, audible
Also said
“For instance, like Silent Partners.” 62:45 · “I told you I operate strictly alone.” 62:52
Seen
campaign poster, campaign button, leather armchair, fedora hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: power, secrecy, political corruption; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots; high-contrast lighting with shadows from blinds; formal attire and campaign props suggest political drama

Two men in suits are seated and talking in a room with campaign posters on the wall. One man, called Smiley, is questioned about operating alone and possibly having silent partners in political circles.

“What do you know?” 62:27 · “You wouldn't be holding out any important information on us, would you, Smiley?” 62:39 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 1:02:36 (passage 1:02:27–1:02:57); US record: No renewal found

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