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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 271 · permalink

Theatre

1:27:51–1:28:13 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:28:021:28:02

Play from 1:27:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 609–609. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build, holding an object visible
  • back of head, likely audience member visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds an object and looks upward while addressing an audience. [frame:1]
Also said
“Turn away your head.” 88:03 · “Ah, can you?” 88:05
Seen
suit, handheld object (possibly a prop or microphone), theatre seating or railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic, cautionary; themes: temptation, moral warning, theatrical performance; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

A man in a suit holds an object while addressing an unseen audience; a voice warns against heeding Mephistopheles. The setting appears to be a formal interior space with theatrical lighting.

“Heed not Mephistopheles, my children.” 87:54 · “lest you suffer eternal damnation” 87:57 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 1:28:02 (passage 1:27:51–1:28:13); US record: No renewal found

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