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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 56 · permalink

Courtroom

20:00–20:19 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1020:10

Play from 20:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 125–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Harold (named at t:20:02): man in dark coat with 'T' on back, side profile visible visible, audible
  • man in suit, facing p1, medium build visible, audible
  • multiple seated figures in dark uniforms, likely police officers visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a courtroom while seated officers occupy the background. [frame:1]
Seen
dark coat with 'T' on back [frame:1], dark uniforms worn by seated figures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, disorder, confrontation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing with figures arranged symmetrically

Two men stand facing each other in a crowded room filled with seated figures in dark uniforms; one man in a dark coat with a 'T' on the back speaks to another man in a suit. The transcript indicates a conversation about police officers occupying seats and a character named Harold.

“Hey, there ain't no seat in a joint. What's this, Harold? What's the matter with you? There's cops in them seats. They won't mind. They won't even know.” 20:02 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 20:10 (passage 20:00–20:19); US record: No renewal found

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