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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 259 · permalink

Living room

1:24:40–1:24:56 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:441:24:44Frame at 1:24:521:24:52

Play from 1:24:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 587–588. 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:2
People
  • older man, dark high-collared coat, stern expression visible
  • man in suit, standing indoors visible
  • woman in light-colored suit, standing indoors visible
  • woman in patterned dress, standing indoors visible
  • older man, balding, seated indoors at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands outdoors near a tree. [frame:1]
  • Four people stand in a room with a lamp and a cross on the wall. [frame:2]
Also said
“Discreetly.” 84:51 · “advisedly.” 84:52
Seen
tree [frame:1], lamp [frame:2], cross on wall [frame:2], desk [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: solemnity, moral gravity, religious tone; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static framing

A man in dark clothing stands outdoors near a tree while a group of four people stand indoors in a room with a lamp and a cross on the wall. The transcript contains a series of adverbs describing how something should be approached: reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.

“and therefore is not by any to be entered into lightly.” 84:47 · “but reverently.” 84:50 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 1:24:44 (passage 1:24:40–1:24:56); US record: No renewal found

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