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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 85 · permalink

Vehicle interior

32:16–32:33 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; 2 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 32:1932:19Frame at 32:2632:26Frame at 32:3232:32

Play from 32:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 185–187. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, and fedora hat visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing dark turtleneck, seated, looking upward visible
Seen happening
  • Man in turtleneck looks upward, appearing contemplative or uneasy. [frame:2]
Also said
“Parker comes first.” 32:23 · “Oh, it's being up so high makes me uncomfortable.” 32:26
Seen
fedora hat, dark suit with tie, turtleneck sweater, vehicle seat or interior panel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: moral choice, hierarchy of priorities, physical discomfort as metaphor; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir

A man in a suit and hat speaks about not running away and prioritizing someone named Parker over a 'rat' in St. Louis. He expresses discomfort with being 'up so high' and prefers being 'down below.'

“I ain't running out of nothing.” 32:16 · “Hopping over to St. Louis to take care of that rat.” 32:19 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 32:19 (passage 32:16–32:33); US record: No renewal found

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