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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 41 · permalink

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12:46–13:04 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5112:51Frame at 13:0113:01

Play from 12:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 23 · shots 83–84. 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
  • dark silhouette with horns and tail, possibly wearing dark clothing visible
  • bent-over figure, partially obscured by smoke and fire visible
Seen happening
  • A horned figure stands near a fire while another person bends over nearby. [frame:1]
  • The horned figure leans over the bent person, surrounded by smoke and fire. [frame:2]
Also said
“in them hot clay pits way down below.” 12:56 · “There ain't no bottom in this joint.” 13:02
Seen
fire [frame:1], smoke [frame:1], horns [frame:1], tail [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous, chaotic; themes: hellish environment, supernatural presence, dialogue of despair; style notes: high-contrast lighting, heavy smoke, silhouetted figures, dramatic framing

A figure with horns and a tail is visible in a smoky, fiery environment, interacting with another person. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about heat, clay pits, and a place with no bottom.

“How hot do they want it down here?” 12:49 · “Bad word, Lisa.” 12:56 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 12:51 (passage 12:46–13:04); US record: No renewal found

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