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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 53 · permalink

Alley

17:16–19:18 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:2017:20Frame at 17:3017:30Frame at 18:2718:27

Play from 17:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 114–116. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing left in frame 1; later in dark turtleneck in frame 3 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in frame 1; later in dark shirt and tie in frame 3 visible
  • man in light-colored overalls, standing right in frame 1; back turned in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are visible in an alley near trash cans and a bakery sign. [frame:1]
  • A man in overalls leans toward a seated man. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand side by side, one in a turtleneck, the other in a shirt and tie. [frame:3]
Also said
“When he wakes up, he'll be you.” 17:55 · “Cold air makes me irritable I don't like cold climate.” 18:17
Seen
trash cans [frame:1], baker sign [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1], overalls [frame:1], dark coat and hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], turtleneck [frame:3], shirt and tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sardonic and conspiratorial; themes: identity, deal-making, supernatural possession; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium shots, static camera, dialogue-driven

Two men discuss acquiring a body for one of them to inhabit, referencing a 'double' and a deal involving a job. The setting is an outdoor alley with a bakery sign, and one man is shown in two different outfits across frames.

“Hey, I don't feel nothing. Of course not. You haven't got a body.” 17:23 · “Hey, you mug, look at what you're doing. No one can see you or hear you until I find you a body. Now, come on in.” 17:29 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 17:20 (passage 17:16–19:18); US record: No renewal found

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