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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 288 · permalink

Private office

1:34:00–1:34:20 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:011:34:01Frame at 1:34:041:34:04Frame at 1:34:091:34:09Frame at 1:34:181:34:18

Play from 1:34:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 121 · shots 648–653. 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:3
People
  • man, dark turtleneck, older, stern expression visible
  • Eddie Cagle (named at t:94:16): man, suit and tie, mid-30s, clean-shaven, expressive face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark turtleneck is shown from a low angle. [frame:1]
  • The same man stands in a doorway with patterned wallpaper. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit speaks with an expressive face in a room with a lamp and door. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit continues speaking, same setting. [frame:4]
Also said
“There's an hombre called Judge Parker.” 94:05 · “And me, Eddie Cagle, is standing around to see that you don't mess things up.” 94:16
Seen
lamp [frame:3], door [frame:3], patterned wallpaper [frame:2], turtleneck [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: conflict, identity, legal or moral authority; style notes: black-and-white, dramatic lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man in a dark turtleneck is shown in a low-angle shot, followed by a man in a suit speaking in a room with a lamp and door. The transcript includes dialogue about rights, Judge Parker, and a character named Eddie Cagle.

“I demand my rights.” 94:00 · “You're missing the point, Shum.” 94:02 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 1:34:01 (passage 1:34:00–1:34:20); US record: No renewal found

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