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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 61 · permalink

Private office

22:18–22:46 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2122:21Frame at 22:2722:27Frame at 22:3322:33Frame at 22:4222:42

Play from 22:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 32 · shots 134–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark robe or coat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a dark high-collared jacket, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
Also said
“Finds I'm him.” 22:35 · “When we're through with him, he won't know a thing.” 22:37
Seen
dark robe or coat, high-collared jacket, window blinds, wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: identity, deception, moral ambiguity; style notes: static medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, minimal background detail

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, discussing a plan involving a judge; one man expresses reluctance while the other reassures him. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and architectural features are visible.

“I ain't muscling in on no judge's body.” 22:22 · “What difference does it make?” 22:24 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 22:21 (passage 22:18–22:46); US record: No renewal found

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