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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 195 · permalink

Private office

1:02:57–1:03:16 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:001:03:00Frame at 1:03:041:03:04Frame at 1:03:071:03:07Frame at 1:03:121:03:12

Play from 1:02:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 445–448. 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 in dark suit and tie, standing, medium build, clean-shaven visible
  • Miley Williams (named at t:63:04): man in pinstripe suit and fedora, reclining in chair, heavier build, smiling visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands facing another man reclining in a chair. [frame:1]
  • The reclining man smiles broadly at the camera. [frame:2]
  • The standing man looks toward the reclining man. [frame:3]
  • The standing man adjusts his suit jacket while the other remains reclined. [frame:4]
Also said
“It would be complications.” 63:13 · “With somebody, he'll get hurt.” 63:14
Seen
campaign poster, leather armchair, wooden desk, window blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, truth and deception, political corruption; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots, static camera, use of shadows from blinds to create visual tension

Two men are in an office; one stands while the other reclines in a chair. A campaign poster for 'Newton Denby' is visible on the wall. One man identifies himself as 'Miley Williams' and warns of complications if the truth is not told.

“Miley Williams.” 63:04 · “After all, if you ain't exactly telling us the truth,” 63:09 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 1:03:00 (passage 1:02:57–1:03:16); US record: No renewal found

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