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Angel and the Badman · Beat 112 · permalink

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47:19–47:39 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:2747:27Frame at 47:3747:37

Play from 47:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 250–251. 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
  • woman, wearing a bonnet and a dress with a white collar, mid-20s, average build visible, audible
  • Quirt (named at t:47:19): man, dark coat, short hair, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and Quirt face each other outdoors, speaking. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks distressed while speaking to Quirt. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I know. I'd be a guy with a marred soul.” 47:31 · “Don't make it sound so crude, Quirt. You see why? I couldn't love you.” 47:35
Seen
bonnet, dark coat, fence, hills
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: moral conflict, romantic tension, personal integrity; style notes: medium close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film grain, focused on facial expressions

A man and a woman stand outdoors in a rural setting, speaking to each other. The woman warns the man about associating with Laredo Stevens, citing debt and moral consequences.

“Quirt, please stay away from Laredo Stevens.” 47:19 · “He owes me money.” 47:22 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 47:27 (passage 47:19–47:39); US record: No renewal found

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