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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 298 · permalink

Private office

1:36:37–1:36:57 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:36:461:36:46Frame at 1:36:561:36:56

Play from 1:36:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 123 · shots 670–671. 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
People
  • Mr. Clark (named at t:96:52): man in dark suit and tie, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing light-colored dress, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man in dark high-necked garment, older, stern expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A man in dark clothing stands behind a piece of furniture, looking forward. [frame:2]
Also said
“You don't belong where I'm going.” 96:49 · “You know, Mr. Clark.” 96:52
Seen
suit [frame:1], dress [frame:1], furniture (partial, possibly desk or table) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: farewell, emotional conflict, unspoken destination; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set design

A man and a woman stand close, speaking in a dimly lit interior; a second man appears in a separate shot, looking sternly from behind a piece of furniture. The dialogue suggests a farewell and emotional conflict.

“I'm afraid you won't understand.” 96:41 · “I only understand that wherever you go, I want to go.” 96:45 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 1:36:46 (passage 1:36:37–1:36:57); US record: No renewal found

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