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Angel and the Badman · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

3:06–7:38 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; 6 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 3:103:10Frame at 5:195:19Frame at 7:267:26Frame at 7:347:34

Play from 3:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 19–22. 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:3
Time of day
night evidence: t:4:00
Period
1800s evidence: t:4:15
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, seen outdoors in frame 1 visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • Quirt Evans (named at t:6:47): man lying unconscious on a bed, covered with a quilt, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man holding a lantern, wearing a dark coat, visible in frame 4 visible
  • man standing near the bed, wearing dark clothing, visible in frame 3 visible
  • woman standing near the bed, wearing a light-colored dress, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • The man is carried into a room and placed on a bed. [frame:3]
  • A woman and a man with a lantern stand near the bed. [frame:4]
Also said
“You'll stay plenty far away from Mr. Quirt Evans.” 6:47 · “Would you call my father, please?” 6:09
Seen
lantern, bed, quilt, wide-brimmed hat, patterned dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, identity, medical emergency, social reputation; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and close-up shots emphasizing character reactions

A man is forcibly brought into an office at night and later seen unconscious in a bed while others discuss his condition and identity. People in the room react to his presence and mention his reputation, including a reference to 'Quirt Evans' and a request to contact his father.

“Sorry, close down for the night. I know, but this is urgent. Won't you please... No, come out of there, you.” 3:44 · “night prowling around here like this.” 4:00 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 3:10 (passage 3:06–7:38); US record: No renewal found

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