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Angel and the Badman · Beat 106 · permalink

Sidewalk

45:25–45:49 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:2945:29Frame at 45:3645:36Frame at 45:4445:44

Play from 45:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 236–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a light-colored bonnet and collared dress, young adult visible
  • 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
Also said
“When are you and Laredo Stevens going to get around to killing one another?” 45:42 · “Well, we water our horses out of the same trough.” 45:47
Seen
horse [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:2], bonnet [frame:1], collared dress [frame:1], dark shirt and pants [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, reputation, frontier justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costumes

A woman and a man stand together outdoors while another man on horseback speaks to them. The dialogue references a past stagecoach robbery and a pending confrontation between two men.

“Tall fella?” 45:26 · “Fast with a gun, held up to Baker's stage, killed a couple.” 45:28 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 45:29 (passage 45:25–45:49); US record: No renewal found

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