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Angel and the Badman · Beat 104 · permalink

Field

44:45–45:10 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:4944:49Frame at 44:5544:55Frame at 45:0445:04

Play from 44:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 230–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and neckerchief, on horseback visible, audible
  • Israel (named at t:44:49): woman wearing light-colored bonnet and dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback speaks to a woman standing outdoors. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks toward the man, listening. [frame:2]
  • The man leans forward, speaking intently to the woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“I can do my talking to you.” 44:56 · “Three weeks, I guess.” 45:02
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], bonnet [frame:2], neckerchief [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: confrontation, inquiry, western genre; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, outdoor natural setting

A man on horseback speaks with a woman outdoors; he asks about a man named Quirt Evans, and she confirms his presence. The man then states he will speak directly to her, and they discuss the duration of Quirt Evans's stay.

“I didn't mean to frighten him, miss.” 44:46 · “Is there a fella named Quirt Evans around here?” 44:50 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 44:49 (passage 44:45–45:10); US record: No renewal found

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