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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

23:24–23:45 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 23:2623:26Frame at 23:3123:31Frame at 23:4023:40

Play from 23:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 146–148. 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:3
People
  • man, dark turtleneck, short hair, serious expression visible
  • man, light robe, medium build, eyes closed visible
  • man, lying on desk, wearing suit, appears unconscious visible
Seen happening
  • Man in turtleneck looks at camera with serious expression. [frame:1]
  • Man in robe closes eyes, appears to be relaxing or meditating. [frame:2]
  • Man in suit lies motionless on desk while two other men stand nearby. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 23:35 · “I'm not.” 23:42
Seen
desk, bookshelves, door, lamp, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ambiguous; themes: control, reluctance, power dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing emphasizing character expressions

A man in a dark turtleneck speaks while another man in a robe stands in a room with bookshelves; a third man lies on a desk. The transcript includes repeated commands to relax and statements about leaving.

“Relax.” 23:26 · “Relax.” 23:31 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 23:26 (passage 23:24–23:45); US record: No renewal found

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