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Angel on My Shoulder · Beat 96 · permalink

Living room

36:02–36:26 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; 4 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 36:1136:11Frame at 36:2436:24

Play from 36:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 212–213. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • woman in dark formal dress with floral hat, medium build visible
  • older man in tuxedo with bow tie, seated visible
  • man in dark turtleneck, standing behind p3 visible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand facing each other; two men observe. [frame:1]
  • Man embraces woman; older man watches. [frame:2]
Also said
“Plenty of curves and all in the right places.” 36:16 · “How about me and you stepping out tonight?” 36:24
Seen
floral hat, formal dress, suit, tuxedo with bow tie, turtleneck, ornate chair, fireplace mantel, wall sconces
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and flirtatious; themes: romantic tension, power dynamics, social class; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing with background figures

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a formal dress in a decorated room; another man watches from a chair. The man embraces the woman as he invites her out for the evening.

“It ain't only a trigger I can squeeze.” 36:02 · “My darling, you've never talked like that before.” 36:04 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 36:11 (passage 36:02–36:26); US record: No renewal found

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