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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

33:20–33:45 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:2333:23Frame at 33:3433:34Frame at 33:3733:37Frame at 33:4433:44

Play from 33:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 40 · shots 192–197. 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
  • woman, wearing a dark suit and a decorated hat, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man, older, wearing glasses, a bow tie, and a dark jacket, heavyset visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man listens and reacts to the woman's account. [frame:3]
  • The man continues to react with surprise. [frame:4]
Also said
“he told me to scram” 33:38 · “The judge said scram.” 33:40
Seen
decorated hat, bow tie, lamp, framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: authority, behavioral anomaly, personal testimony; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A woman and a man are shown in an interior setting, discussing the judge's unusual behavior. The woman recounts that the judge told her to 'scram' when she went to help him dress.

“Oh, but that's ridiculous.” 33:20 · “The judge's gentility itself. He never pushed anybody.” 33:22 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 33:23 (passage 33:20–33:45); US record: No renewal found

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