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Angel and the Badman · Beat 105 · permalink

Sidewalk

45:10–45:25 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; 3 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 45:1245:12Frame at 45:1745:17Frame at 45:2345:23

Play from 45:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 233–235. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a light-colored bonnet and collared dress, young adult visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, standing, mid-adult visible
  • Whistful McClank (named at t:45:15): man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and dark coat, mounted on horse, older with gray hair visible, audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks to a man on horseback. [frame:1]
  • A man on horseback greets a woman while another man stands nearby. [frame:2]
  • The man on horseback smiles while holding reins. [frame:3]
Also said
“And don't let that gray hair fool you. He's a curly wolf.” 45:19 · “See, I thought I had you about half home.” 45:23
Seen
horse [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:2], brick building [frame:2], bonnet [frame:1], reins [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but familiar; themes: introduction of authority figure, gendered address, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume

A woman speaks to a man on horseback while another man stands nearby; the dialogue identifies the man on horseback as Marshal Whistful McClank and refers to him as a 'curly wolf.' The setting appears to be outdoors near a brick building with horses present.

“Hello, you weather-beaten old hangman.” 45:12 · “Penny, this is Whistful McClank, the Marshal of the Territory. Hi, miss.” 45:15 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 45:12 (passage 45:10–45:25); US record: No renewal found

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