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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 311 · permalink

Living room

1:39:44–1:40:02 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:39:491:39:49Frame at 1:39:581:39:58

Play from 1:39:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 692–693. 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
  • man in dark suit, medium build, appears mid-30s to 40s, standing on left visible
  • man in dark clerical collar, older, standing on right visible
Seen happening
  • One man stands facing another in a room with a fireplace and armchair. [frame:1]
  • The two men are shown in a tighter shot, one looking toward the other. [frame:2]
Also said
“Nothing. Everything's fine now.” 99:57
Seen
armchair with draped cloth, fireplace with mantel, wall sconce lamp, framed pictures on wall, arched doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, emotionally charged; themes: emotional resolution, confrontation, reassurance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

Two men stand in a dimly lit room with formal furnishings; one speaks while the other listens. The dialogue suggests an emotional moment has just passed, with one man dismissing concern by saying everything is fine now.

“tears in your eyes.” 99:50 · “What's the matter?” 99:53 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 1:39:49 (passage 1:39:44–1:40:02); US record: No renewal found

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