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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 277 · permalink

Private office

1:29:24–1:29:56 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; 2 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 1:29:401:29:40

Play from 1:29:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 619–619. 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, mid-adult, medium build, holding a decanter visible, audible
  • man seated in background, wearing suit, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man pours drinks from a decanter. [frame:1]
Also said
“Bellamy steered me to you about getting a passport.” 89:39 · “A hundred grand and 25 percent of the take.” 89:53
Seen
decanter [frame:1], glass [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: business negotiation, corruption, power dynamics; style notes: classic black-and-white film framing, medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire

A man in a suit prepares drinks while discussing business involving St. Louis, eastern venues, and a passport, with another man seated in the background. The speaker asks for a hundred grand and 25 percent of the take.

“I'm fixing a couple of drinks.” 89:25 · “Well, I'm operating in St. Louis and other spots.” 89:30 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 1:29:40 (passage 1:29:24–1:29:56); US record: No renewal found

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