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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 268 · permalink

Living room

1:27:06–1:27:18 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:27:081:27:08Frame at 1:27:141:27:14

Play from 1:27:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 605–606. 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 in dark pinstripe suit, lying on couch, eyes closed visible
  • man in light suit with patterned tie, standing, alert expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on a couch with eyes closed. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands facing forward. [frame:2]
Also said
“been carrying it around ever since.” 87:14 · “Brings him luck, he says.” 87:16
Seen
patterned couch [frame:1], suit [frame:1, frame:2], wall sconce [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: revenge, possession, mortality; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set

A man in a suit lies on a patterned couch while another man in a suit stands nearby. The transcript mentions a gun carried in a breast pocket since a killing.

“You might like to know that in his breast pocket” 87:07 · “He's carrying the very gun with which he snuffed you out.” 87:10 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 1:27:08 (passage 1:27:06–1:27:18); US record: No renewal found

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