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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 59 · permalink

Courtroom

21:03–21:59 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; 7 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 21:0621:06Frame at 21:3321:33Frame at 21:5821:58

Play from 21:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 130–132. 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 suit and tie, seated, appears unconscious or sedated visible
  • man in light-colored suit, bending over p1, likely a doctor visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing, likely an officer visible
  • Eddie (named at t:21:15): man in dark suit, standing, speaking authoritatively visible, audible
  • Ada (named at t:21:07): woman, partially visible, likely Ada visible, audible
  • man in dark uniform, standing behind p4 visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The unconscious man is lying in a chair, eyes closed. [frame:3]
Also said
“Don't give me no orders.” 21:10 · “I've given him a sedative let him sleep a while and get him home.” 21:28
Seen
courtroom bench, uniformed officers, doctor's coat, sedated man in chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative, with undertones of control and medical urgency; themes: authority, control, medical intervention, legal aftermath; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal courtroom setting, focus on character dominance and physical state

A courtroom adjourns; a man named Eddie asserts dominance over Ada while another man lies unconscious or sedated, attended by a doctor and officers. The scene ends with a man lying in a chair, apparently sedated, as others prepare to move him.

“This court is now adjourned.” 21:03 · “Come on, Ada, let's go.” 21:07 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 21:06 (passage 21:03–21:59); US record: No renewal found

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