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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 34 · permalink

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10:42–11:14 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; 5 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 10:4410:44Frame at 10:5110:51Frame at 11:0111:01Frame at 11:1111:11

Play from 10:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 67–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted, muscular, shirtless or in tank top, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • silhouetted, wearing dark suit and hat, visible in frame:4 visible
  • silhouetted, bald or closely cropped hair, wearing dark coat, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • silhouetted, group of men in motion, visible in frame:3 visible
  • Gordon (named at t:10:47): audible speaker, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A group of silhouetted men are gathered in a dark, cavernous space. [frame:1]
  • A muscular man in silhouette stands near a bald man in a dark coat. [frame:2]
  • A group of men in silhouette are moving or struggling in the dark space. [frame:3]
  • Two men in dark coats and hats stand observing others in the cavern. [frame:4]
Also said
“to defy the room. Is he 50, 50?” 11:10 · “circle of darkness.” 11:12
Seen
rock walls [frame:1], silhouetted figures [frame:2], group of men in motion [frame:3], men in dark coats and hats [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous and tense; themes: confrontation, moral ambiguity, supernatural or underworld setting; style notes: high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting, silhouetted figures, static camera framing emphasizing shadow and mystery

A group of men in a dark, cavernous space are shown in silhouette, with some standing and others moving or struggling. The transcript includes a line mentioning 'Gordon' and references to defiance and a 'circle of darkness.'

“What's the meaning of this?” 10:45 · “there you bring him here we have no choice Gordon” 10:47 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 10:44 (passage 10:42–11:14); US record: No renewal found

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