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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 261 · permalink

Private office

1:25:19–1:25:41 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; 3 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 1:25:231:25:23Frame at 1:25:341:25:34

Play from 1:25:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 593–594. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Fred (named at t:85:37): woman with styled hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar visible, audible
  • man in a suit and tie, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • woman in a patterned dress, standing in background visible
Also said
“what the devil is waiting” 85:32 · “Fred, you don't know how hard I've been trying to help you in every way.” 85:37
Seen
bookshelf [frame:2], wooden door [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: romantic conflict, moral struggle, personal sacrifice; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, black-and-white film, formal attire suggests 1940s production

A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room with a third person visible in the background; the woman speaks about not marrying the man and mentions trying to help him. The setting appears to be an interior space with bookshelves and a door visible.

“Honey, I gotta speak now.” 85:21 · “I can't marry you.” 85:26 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 1:25:23 (passage 1:25:19–1:25:41); US record: No renewal found

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