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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 257 · permalink

Forest

1:24:08–1:24:33 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; 3 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:171:24:17Frame at 1:24:281:24:28Frame at 1:24:311:24:31

Play from 1:24:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 109 · shots 582–584. 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
  • older man, mustache, dark high-collared clothing, possibly clerical visible, audible
  • Eddie (named at t:84:16): younger man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The older man speaks to Eddie outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Eddie responds while facing the older man. [frame:2]
  • The older man listens or pauses, looking at Eddie. [frame:3]
Also said
“Eddie, I've only the kindliest feelings told you.” 84:16 · “Blessings on both of you.” 84:24
Seen
suit and tie [frame:2], dark clerical-style coat [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, conversational; themes: redemption, moral guidance, second chances; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting with dappled shadows, focused on character interaction

Two men converse outdoors; one, older with a mustache and dark clerical-style clothing, speaks while the other, younger in a suit, listens. The transcript includes phrases like "Amen" and "Blessings on both of you," suggesting a religious or solemn context.

“Amen.” 84:08 · “I ain't done nothing wrong since you brought me back.” 84:09 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 1:24:17 (passage 1:24:08–1:24:33); US record: No renewal found

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