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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 278 · permalink

Private office

1:29:56–1:30:19 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:001:30:00Frame at 1:30:051:30:05Frame at 1:30:101:30:10Frame at 1:30:171:30:17

Play from 1:29:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 620–623. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in pinstripe suit, mid-40s, medium build, smiling visible, audible
  • man in dark turtleneck sweater, 40s, medium build, standing visible
  • man in suit, 40s, medium build, leaning on desk visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the pinstripe suit is seated and smiling. [frame:1]
  • The man in the turtleneck stands near a lamp and framed pictures. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit leans on a desk with trophies; another man stands behind him. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit reaches toward the trophies; the man behind him smiles. [frame:4]
Also said
“Eddie Cagle had your outfit.” 90:14 · “Yeah, but he's dead.” 90:16
Seen
pinstripe suit [frame:1], dark turtleneck sweater [frame:2], framed pictures on wall [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], desk with trophies [frame:3, frame:4], lamp with dark shade [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: power dynamics, criminal enterprise, identity and reputation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s setting

A man in a pinstripe suit speaks while seated in a room with framed pictures; another man in a dark turtleneck stands nearby. A third man in a suit is visible in the background, leaning on a desk with trophies. The dialogue suggests a discussion about operating alone and mentions a deceased person named Eddie Cagle.

“Hold on, Judge.” 89:58 · “I ain't no hick.” 90:02 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 1:30:00 (passage 1:29:56–1:30:19); US record: No renewal found

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