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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 281 · permalink

Private office

1:30:59–1:31:18 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:031:31:03Frame at 1:31:081:31:08Frame at 1:31:111:31:11Frame at 1:31:161:31:16

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 629–632. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Smiley Williams (named at t:91:11): man in dark pinstripe suit and patterned tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • Judge Park (named at t:91:16): man in dark suit and tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from side/back, medium build visible
Also said
“My name is Smiley Williams.” 91:11 · “They call me Judge Park.” 91:16
Seen
pinstripe suit, bookshelf, arched doorway, lamp, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: introduction, identity, formal address; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with classical architecture

Two men in suits meet in an interior room; one identifies himself as Smiley Williams and the other as Judge Park. One man appears nervous while the other speaks to him.

“I feel nervous.” 91:02 · “You look like you've seen a ghost.” 91:04 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 1:31:03 (passage 1:30:59–1:31:18); US record: No renewal found

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