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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 275 · permalink

Private office

1:28:25–1:28:44 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 1:28:321:28:32Frame at 1:28:421:28:42

Play from 1:28:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 613–614. 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
  • Mr. Popolis (named at t:88:27): man in dark suit, medium build, dark hair, standing visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, medium build, dark hair, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to another man in a room with a fireplace. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other; one appears to be listening intently. [frame:2]
Also said
“I wake up first. It's so much simpler this time.” 88:37 · “I made him. drowsy to make it easy for you.” 88:42
Seen
fireplace, bookshelves, lamp, framed painting
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: moral conflict, planned violence, manipulation; style notes: medium close-up shots, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men are in a dimly lit room with a fireplace and bookshelves; one speaks about not shooting someone asleep and making him drowsy. The dialogue suggests a planned act involving a character named Nick.

“You're right, Mr. Popolis.” 88:27 · “But I ain't never plugged no guy what's asleep.” 88:33 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 1:28:32 (passage 1:28:25–1:28:44); US record: No renewal found

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