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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 244 · permalink

Private office

1:18:54–1:19:25 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:001:19:00Frame at 1:19:071:19:07Frame at 1:19:171:19:17

Play from 1:18:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 541–543. 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, mid-30s, medium build, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie visible, audible
  • Barbara (named at t:79:08): woman, mid-20s, dark hair in a 1940s updo, wearing a collared dress or jacket visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks earnestly to a woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman, Barbara, looks at the man with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman stand facing each other in a room with a window behind them. [frame:3]
Also said
“- All right. - Barbara, wait. Let me talk to you.” 79:08 · “This may mean everything to you.” 79:14
Seen
suit and tie [frame:1], collared dress or jacket [frame:2], window with panes [frame:3], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: conflict, personal appeal, legal or bureaucratic procedure; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, 1940s film noir framing

A man in a suit pleads with a woman named Barbara in an interior setting; she listens with a serious expression. The dialogue suggests a formal complaint and a request for a private conversation about her future.

“Don't do this to me.” 79:03 · “You'll have to file a complaint, lady.” 79:06 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 1:19:00 (passage 1:18:54–1:19:25); US record: No renewal found

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