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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 5 · permalink

Penitentiary

1:32–1:33 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:331:33

Play from 1:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 4–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
penitentiary (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, exiting building visible
  • man in lighter coat and hat, walking past on sidewalk visible
Seen happening
  • A man exits a building labeled 'PENITENTIARY'. [frame:1]
  • Another man walks past on the sidewalk. [frame:1]
Seen
building with sign reading 'PENITENTIARY', wooden doors, sidewalk
On screen
PENITENTIARY
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: institutional exit, urban setting, solitary figures; style notes: static medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir

A man in a dark coat and hat walks out of a building labeled 'PENITENTIARY' while another man in a lighter coat and hat walks past him on the sidewalk. No dialogue or on-screen text is present beyond the building's sign.

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 1:33 (passage 1:32–1:33); US record: No renewal found

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