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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 237 · permalink

Road

1:15:53–1:16:34 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; 4 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 1:16:011:16:01Frame at 1:16:151:16:15Frame at 1:16:241:16:24Frame at 1:16:301:16:30

Play from 1:15:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 103 · shots 523–526. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in suit, driving, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man in dark jacket, seated passenger, smiling, medium build visible
  • motorcyclist in uniform, helmeted visible
  • motorcyclist in uniform, helmeted visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a convertible car, one driving, the other smiling beside him. [frame:1]
  • The passenger turns his head and smiles broadly. [frame:2]
  • The driver looks back over his shoulder while the passenger leans forward, both looking toward the rear. [frame:3]
  • The convertible is shown from behind, followed by two police motorcycles on a paved road. [frame:4]
Also said
“No.” 76:07 · “David.” 76:19
Seen
convertible car, motorcycles, telephone pole, road with white center line
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted with undertones of tension; themes: companionable travel, verbal sparring, authority presence; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups transitioning to wide shot, natural outdoor lighting

Two men are seen in a convertible car on a road; one drives while the other sits beside him. A motorcycle police escort follows the car, and dialogue suggests a lighthearted or tense exchange between the men.

“Couldn't ask for more delightful weather.” 76:00 · “Take that.” 76:04 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 1:16:01 (passage 1:15:53–1:16:34); US record: No renewal found

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