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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 197 · permalink

Private office

1:03:37–1:04:11 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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:391:03:39Frame at 1:03:461:03:46Frame at 1:04:011:04:01

Play from 1:03:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 454–456. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, facing away from camera visible
  • man in light suit and fedora, standing in doorway, looking surprised visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing behind p2, partially visible visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing to right of doorway, hands clasped visible
  • man in light suit, standing, gesturing toward seated man visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated in leather chair, leaning back visible
  • Smiley (named at t:64:06): man in pinstripe suit and fedora, holding cigar, talking to p8 visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, listening to p7 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in background behind p7 and p8 visible
Seen happening
  • Men gather in a doorway, one looks surprised as another speaks. [frame:1]
  • A man stands over another seated man in an office, gesturing toward him. [frame:2]
  • Two men in suits and hats talk closely, one holding a cigar. [frame:3]
Also said
“Thanks, Smiley.” 64:06 · “Come on.” 64:08
Seen
{'item': 'fedora hats', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:3'} [frame:1, frame:3], {'item': 'suits', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:2, frame:3'} [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], {'item': 'leather armchair', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'desk with telephone and papers', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'cigar', 'evidence': 'frame:3'} [frame:3], {'item': 'blinds on windows', 'evidence': 'frame:2, frame:3'} [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: power, political ambition, negotiation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting with strong shadows from blinds, formal attire, static camera

Men in suits and hats converse in an office; one man is told to contact a judge named Ferrick Parker, who is running for governor. Another scene shows a man standing over a seated man in a sunlit office, followed by two men talking closely.

“You better call on him right away.” 63:38 · “- Ferrick Parker. - He better be getting on over there. - Huh, is he the juice? - Running for governor, too.” 63:52 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 1:03:39 (passage 1:03:37–1:04:11); US record: No renewal found

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