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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

27:05–27:40 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:1827:18Frame at 27:3427:34Frame at 27:3927:39

Play from 27:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 167–169. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, glasses, suit, bow tie, white hair visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, dark suit, light shirt visible, audible
  • man in dark coat, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark coat enters; another man gestures toward him. [frame:2]
  • An older man stands alone, looking concerned. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, Nick! Nick! Where are you?” 27:37 · “Hey, Hank!” 27:39
Seen
lamp, door, chair, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confused; themes: identity, disorientation, summoning; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men converse in a room with furniture and a lamp; one man calls out for 'Nick' and 'Hank'. No names are established for the visible individuals beyond what is spoken in the transcript.

“You got one too.” 27:15 · “Salad like I used to be. Are you quite all right, sir?” 27:27 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 27:18 (passage 27:05–27:40); US record: No renewal found

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