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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

30:20–30:39 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:2430:24Frame at 30:2930:29Frame at 30:3430:34

Play from 30:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 176–178. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-30s, medium build, dark hair visible
  • older man with glasses, wearing bow tie and dark jacket, white hair visible
Seen happening
  • man in suit adjusts his jacket while speaking [frame:1]
  • older man stands in room with windows and curtains [frame:2]
  • man in suit holds small object while speaking [frame:3]
Seen
suit jacket [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2], window with curtains [frame:2], small object held by man [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: negotiation, confrontation, professional setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire

A man in a suit speaks while adjusting his jacket; another man in a bow tie and glasses stands in a room with windows and curtains. The transcript includes a line asking for sandpaper and an urging phrase.

“Got any sandpaper?” 30:27 · “Come on.” 30:32 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 30:24 (passage 30:20–30:39); US record: No renewal found

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