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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 78 · permalink

Private office

29:18–30:03 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:2329:23Frame at 29:4629:46

Play from 29:18 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 172–173. 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, balding, wearing a suit jacket and tie, seated or leaning visible, audible
  • Gary (named at t:29:25): younger man, dark hair, wearing a vest and white shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit demands money from a safe. [frame:1]
  • The younger man, Gary, stands holding a coat while the older man leans forward. [frame:2]
Also said
“I don't see no safe.” 29:55 · “Behind the picture, sir.” 30:02
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], picture on wall [frame:2], coat [frame:2], desk or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and demanding; themes: authority, compliance, urgency; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men are in a room with a fireplace; one demands money from a safe while the other complies. The man demanding money insists on a private plane to St. Louis.

“You get me a ticket on the next plane of St. Louis. But you you I you work here don't you. Yeah.” 29:18 · “I am the usual place. Don't give me no double talk. Where's the dough in the safe, sir?” 29:48 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 29:23 (passage 29:18–30:03); US record: No renewal found

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