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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 57 · permalink

Courtroom

20:19–20:57 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:2220:22Frame at 20:3720:37Frame at 20:5320:53

Play from 20:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 126–128. 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
  • man in dark robe, balding, seated at bench visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, speaking visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt, seated, smiling then distressed visible
  • man in uniform, standing near defendant visible
  • man in suit, seated in audience visible
  • man in uniform, standing near judge visible
Seen happening
  • Judge collapses, prompting bailiffs to react. [frame:3]
Also said
“Get us out, quick!” 20:49 · “He collapsed, Eddie.” 20:52
Seen
judge's bench, courtroom gallery seating, bailiff uniforms, defendant's chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and abrupt; themes: justice system, sudden crisis, public spectacle; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal courtroom composition

In a courtroom, a prosecutor addresses the judge while the defendant reacts. The judge suddenly collapses, prompting alarm from the bailiffs and others present.

“Your Honor.” 20:23 · “That's a lie. I'm not going to take any more of this.” 20:35 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 20:22 (passage 20:19–20:57); US record: No renewal found

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