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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 312 · permalink

Shop

1:40:02–1:41:19 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:40:411:40:41

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 694–694. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, medium build, visible in profile visible, audible
  • older man in dark coat, visible from front, slight smile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand outside a bakery, visible in frame. [frame:1]
Also said
“No big shot wants to look like a sucker before his old mom.” 100:45 · “This is sheer unblushing blackmail.” 100:53
Seen
bakery sign [frame:1], dark coats [frame:1]
On screen
SCHMIDT & ROSEN'S BAKERY
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: moral reckoning, blackmail, regret, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men stand outside a bakery at night; one speaks of regret and impending punishment, while the other responds with defiance and references blackmail. No names are spoken, and no time of day is established beyond the dark setting.

“I never thought people's faces looked so good.” 100:13 · “If I'd only know the first trip around what I know now. When I get you down below, I'm going to take special pains with you. I'm going to introduce you to agonies undreamed of. I don't think you'll be so.” 100:22 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 1:40:41 (passage 1:40:02–1:41:19); US record: No renewal found

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