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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 92 · permalink

Private office

34:46–35:17 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:4934:49Frame at 35:0435:04

Play from 34:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 203–204. 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
  • Matt (named at t:34:51): man in suit, seated, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
  • Barbara (named at t:34:47): woman in dark dress and hat, standing visible, audible
  • Albert (named at t:34:56): older man in suit and bow tie, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Matt holds a telephone receiver to his ear while seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • Barbara and Albert stand together near a window with curtains. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, Albert?” 34:56 · “Remember now.” 35:08
Seen
telephone, desk, curtains, window, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, patience, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting with soft shadows, formal attire suggests mid-century setting

A man in a suit speaks on the phone while seated at a desk; a woman and an older man stand nearby in a room with curtains and a window. The transcript indicates a conversation about patience and secrecy, with characters named Barbara, Matt, and Albert mentioned.

“Now, you understand, don't you, Barbara?” 34:47 · “The important thing is patience.” 34:49 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 34:49 (passage 34:46–35:17); US record: No renewal found

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