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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 251 · permalink

Living room

1:21:40–1:22:18 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 1:21:421:21:42Frame at 1:21:561:21:56Frame at 1:22:081:22:08Frame at 1:22:161:22:16

Play from 1:21:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 556–561. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, wearing dark suit and tie, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, entering room visible
  • woman, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands in a room with framed pictures and a fireplace. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit enters the room while a woman walks away in the background. [frame:2]
  • The older man turns his head slightly, still standing. [frame:3]
  • The older man faces forward, holding an object in his hands. [frame:4]
Also said
“that a millstone were hanged about his neck” 81:58 · “If thy hand offend thee, cut it off.” 82:04
Seen
framed pictures [frame:1], fireplace [frame:1], lamp [frame:4], candles [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: religion, marriage, moral judgment; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A man in a dark suit and tie stands in a room with framed pictures and a fireplace, speaking while another man enters. A woman is heard speaking off-screen, mentioning her husband is preparing a sermon. The transcript includes biblical quotations about marriage and damnation.

“My husband is preparing his sermon.” 81:49 · “He'll be right with you.” 81:51 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 1:21:42 (passage 1:21:40–1:22:18); US record: No renewal found

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