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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 256 · permalink

Forest

1:23:47–1:24:08 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:481:23:48Frame at 1:23:511:23:51Frame at 1:23:551:23:55Frame at 1:24:031:24:03

Play from 1:23:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 578–581. 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
  • Nick (named at t:83:48): man in dark coat, older, slicked-back hair, serious expression visible, audible
  • Eddie (named at t:83:54): younger man in suit and tie, clean-shaven, expressive face visible, audible
Also said
“Dope I got says you can't get the drop on a good man.” 83:59 · “My records clean this trip.” 84:05
Seen
suit and tie [frame:2], dark coat [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, secrets, moral ambiguity; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, focused on facial expressions

Two men converse outdoors; one, in a suit, is addressed as Eddie and told he knows too much. The other, in a dark coat, claims his records are clean and references a saying about not being able to get the drop on a good man.

“Do you know? Yeah, Nick.” 83:48 · “I'm afraid I'll have to take you back, Eddie. You know too much.” 83:54 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 1:23:48 (passage 1:23:47–1:24:08); US record: No renewal found

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