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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 293 · permalink

Living room

1:35:21–1:35:43 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:35:251:35:25Frame at 1:35:361:35:36

Play from 1:35:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 662–663. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Barbara (named at t:95:26): man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark clerical collar, older, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit speaks on phone. [frame:1]
  • Man in clerical collar stands behind the man on the phone. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hello?” 95:40 · “Barbara?” 95:42
Seen
telephone, lamp, sofa, arched doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: goodbye, urgency, communication; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A man in a suit speaks on the phone while another man in clerical attire stands nearby. The transcript indicates a conversation about saying goodbye to someone named Barbara.

“I want to say goodbye to Barbara first.” 95:26 · “I cannot wait. You're waiting like it.” 95:28 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 1:35:25 (passage 1:35:21–1:35:43); US record: No renewal found

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