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Angel and the Badman · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

44:03–44:24 Released 1947; 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 44:1344:13

Play from 44:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 225–225. 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
  • man, dark clothing, holding a hat, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, bonnet, apron, light-colored dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“It's just that we don't believe in doing what we know is wrong.” 44:04 · “Well, there's a lot of gents I wouldn't want to give that much leeway to.” 44:17
Seen
hat [frame:1], bonnet [frame:1], apron [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, conversational; themes: moral autonomy, personal responsibility, religious observance; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A man and a woman stand facing each other in a wooden interior, speaking about moral choices and personal responsibility. The woman wears a bonnet and apron; the man is in dark clothing and holds a hat.

“Thought you weren't allowed to work on Sunday.” 44:04 · “Oh, of course. There's nothing we're not allowed to do.” 44:04 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 and the Badman (1947) at 44:13 (passage 44:03–44:24); US record: No renewal found

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