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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 66 · permalink

Living room

24:37–24:57 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 24:4024:40Frame at 24:4424:44Frame at 24:5124:51Frame at 24:5624:56

Play from 24:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 34 · shots 150–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair styled in a 1940s updo, wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt and bow tie, holding a teacup visible, audible
  • man, mid-40s, dark hair, mustache, wearing a dark suit with patterned tie and pocket square, holding a teacup visible, audible
Also said
“Not his wife.” 24:49 · “If that ring means anything, you soon will be.” 24:50
Seen
teacup [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], armchair [frame:2, frame:4], lamp [frame:2, frame:4], framed picture [frame:2, frame:4], side table with figurine [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: marriage, duty vs. personal desire, social roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A woman and a man in formal attire converse in a room with furniture and decor; the dialogue suggests a discussion about a person named Fred and a ring implying an impending marriage. No explicit time of day or period is established, and no names are spoken that can be assigned to the visible individuals.

“Why do you say that?” 24:38 · “When he awakens in the morning, I suggest you pine him into his car and get him away for a couple of weeks.” 24:43 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 24:40 (passage 24:37–24:57); US record: No renewal found

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