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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 196 · permalink

Private office

1:03:16–1:03:37 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:181:03:18Frame at 1:03:211:03:21Frame at 1:03:311:03:31Frame at 1:03:351:03:35

Play from 1:03:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 86 · shots 449–453. 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:4
People
  • heavyset man, wearing pinstripe suit, fedora, and patterned tie, seated visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing dark high-collared suit, standing near blinds visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing dark suit with lapel pin, leaning forward visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a pinstripe suit and hat smiles while seated. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit stands near window blinds. [frame:2]
  • The man in the pinstripe suit continues smiling while seated. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit leans forward over furniture in an office. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah, the Jews.” 63:33 · “Now give me his name and address.” 63:35
Seen
pinstripe suit [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], window blinds [frame:2], desk lamp [frame:4], framed pictures on wall [frame:4], lapel pin [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: manipulation, negotiation, power dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A man in a pinstripe suit and hat is seated and smiling in a dimly lit room; another man in a dark suit stands near blinds, and a third man in a suit leans forward over furniture. Dialogue mentions sending someone to a judge's house and references 'the Jews'.

“It's always the other guy gets hurt.” 63:16 · “Send him to the judge's house. That will settle both of them.” 63:20 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 1:03:18 (passage 1:03:16–1:03:37); US record: No renewal found

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