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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 262 · permalink

Living room

1:25:41–1:25:57 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; 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 1:25:441:25:44Frame at 1:25:521:25:52

Play from 1:25:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 110 · shots 595–596. 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:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing dress with styled hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man holds the woman as she looks up at him. [frame:2]
Also said
“My eyes have been opened.” 85:53 · “Man, you know, I would be the worst thing I could do.” 85:54
Seen
suit and tie, dress, door, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: confession, moral reckoning, emotional confrontation; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, intimate framing

A man and a woman are in a tense conversation in an interior room; the man admits to killing the woman. The woman pleads with him as he holds her, and he states his eyes have been opened.

“But I'm afraid I can't go much further. You're not only destroying yourself, you're destroying me.” 85:41 · “- Look, honey, I killed you.” 85:50 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 1:25:44 (passage 1:25:41–1:25:57); US record: No renewal found

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