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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 269 · permalink

Private office

1:27:18–1:27:40 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 1:27:291:27:29

Play from 1:27:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 607–607. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man seated on couch, wearing dark jacket, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man lying on couch, light-colored hair, wearing light shirt, appears unconscious or dead visible
Seen
couch, framed pictures on wall, lamp on side table, papers on couch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: retribution, moral consequence; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, chiaroscuro lighting emphasizing the standing figure and the prone body

A man stands over another man seated on a couch in a dimly lit room with framed pictures on the wall; a third man lies motionless on the couch. A voice speaks of repaying a debt with a gun and calls it poetic justice.

“to now repay that long overdue debt with your own gun.” 87:19 · “That's what's known as poetic justice.” 87:24 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 1:27:29 (passage 1:27:18–1:27:40); US record: No renewal found

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