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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 287 · permalink

Private office

1:33:39–1:34:00 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 1:33:411:33:41Frame at 1:33:511:33:51

Play from 1:33:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 646–647. 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:2
People
  • tall, darkly dressed, wearing a mask or heavy makeup, standing imposingly visible
  • shorter, wearing a suit, standing to the right visible
Seen happening
  • A tall, masked figure stands in a room with a shorter man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • The two men remain in the same positions in the room. [frame:2]
Also said
“He volunteered to do my bidding.” 93:55 · “Must I be humiliated by this maggot?” 93:57
Seen
curtains [frame:2], furniture [frame:2], mask or heavy makeup [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and confrontational; themes: moral conflict, power struggle, supernatural elements; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing, theatrical staging

Two men are visible in a dimly lit interior room; one is tall and darkly dressed, the other shorter and in a suit. The transcript contains rhetorical questions and accusations about a 'subhuman creature' and 'maggot' who volunteered to do bidding.

“Am I doomed forever to be vanquished?” 93:40 · “What has this subhuman creature, incubated in the recesses of foulness, done to become your favorite?” 93:43 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 1:33:41 (passage 1:33:39–1:34:00); US record: No renewal found

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