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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 86 · permalink

Vehicle interior

32:33–32:51 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3832:38Frame at 32:4532:45Frame at 32:4932:49

Play from 32:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 188–190. 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 in dark turtleneck, visible in frame 1 and 2, smiling in frame 2 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, visible in frame 1 and 3, looking concerned visible, audible
Also said
“We'll have to go back to the field.” 32:41 · “Smile up and get lunch.” 32:50
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], turtleneck [frame:1], vehicle seat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: confinement, unexpected turn, social status; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, confined framing within vehicle

Two men are seated inside a vehicle; one speaks about being poor and needing to return to a field, while the other reacts with surprise and is told to smile for lunch. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“I am poor, outed.” 32:34 · “Hey, what's that?” 32:39 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 32:38 (passage 32:33–32:51); US record: No renewal found

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