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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 228 · permalink

Forest

1:13:04–1:13:23 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:081:13:08Frame at 1:13:181:13:18

Play from 1:13:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 502–503. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and tie, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man in dark formal coat, older, mustache, serious expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is shown outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man in dark formal wear is shown outdoors. [frame:2]
Also said
“like you did before.” 73:19 · “With a smile on his face.” 73:21
Seen
{'item': 'suit and tie', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark formal coat', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'trees and foliage', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, past actions, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, high contrast

Two men are shown in separate frames outdoors, one in a suit and the other in dark formal wear, with dialogue indicating a threat involving someone named Curly and Smiley. No named characters are visually identified, and the setting appears to be wooded.

“Curly's in danger with Smiley here.” 73:10 · “When he sees you, if you don't get him, he'll get you.” 73:14 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 1:13:08 (passage 1:13:04–1:13:23); US record: No renewal found

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