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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 258 · permalink

Street

1:24:33–1:24:40 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:341:24:34Frame at 1:24:371:24:37

Play from 1:24:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 585–586. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in suit and tie, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible
  • Beaselbub (named at t:84:38): man in dark turtleneck or high-collared coat, older, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing stands facing the camera while another man in a suit stands near a car in the background. [frame:2]
Seen
vintage convertible car [frame:2], trees and building in background [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: confrontation, supernatural reference; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting outdoors, two-shot composition

Two men stand outdoors near a vintage car; one is in a suit, the other in dark clothing. A name is spoken in the transcript during this beat.

“Beaselbub.” 84:38 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 1:24:34 (passage 1:24:33–1:24:40); US record: No renewal found

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