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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 49 · permalink

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14:20–14:41 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; 1 name 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 14:2214:22Frame at 14:2814:28Frame at 14:3314:33Frame at 14:3914:39

Play from 14:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 101–108. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man, mid-adult, dark hair, wearing dark suit or coat, face partially lit, appears sweaty or wet visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit is shown in a smoky, dimly lit environment. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head slightly, revealing a wet or sweaty face under harsh side lighting. [frame:2]
  • The man looks downward, still in shadow and haze. [frame:3]
  • The man turns his head again, with bright light flaring from the left side of the frame. [frame:4]
Also said
“My love.” 14:38 · “Pluck me.” 14:39
Seen
smoke or haze [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], bright light source [frame:2, frame:4], dark suit or coat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, mysterious, dramatic; themes: mystery, drama, supernatural suggestion; style notes: high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting, smoky atmosphere, tight framing on a single character, black-and-white film stock

A man in dark clothing is shown in four frames under dramatic lighting with smoke or haze, reacting to off-screen dialogue. The transcript contains fragmented, possibly mis-transcribed lines including 'Well, Eddie?' and 'My love.'

“Well, Eddie?” 14:24 · “watch it.” 14:28 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 14:22 (passage 14:20–14:41); US record: No renewal found

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