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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

28:10–29:18 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; 4 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 28:4428:44

Play from 28:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 37 · shots 171–171. 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
  • older man, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, standing visible, audible
  • middle-aged man, shirtless, wearing dark trousers, holding clothing visible, audible
  • Barbara (named at t:28:52): unseen, referred to as 'Miss Barbara' mentioned
  • Albert (named at t:28:54): unseen, referred to as 'Albert' mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit gestures toward a shirtless man holding clothing. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hello, Miss Barbara.” 28:52 · “Hey, you!” 29:15
Seen
suit [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], clothing held by man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity, authority, disguise; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit speaks to a shirtless man in a room; the transcript includes dialogue about clothing, a judge, and a plane ticket to St. Louis. A third person is addressed as 'Miss Barbara' and told the judge is not himself.

“What am I, a judge or an undertaker?” 28:12 · “And you got nothing with fancy stripes? Fancy stripes?” 28:16 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 28:44 (passage 28:10–29:18); US record: No renewal found

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