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Angel and the Badman · Beat 113 · permalink

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47:39–47:59 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 47:4247:42Frame at 47:5247:52

Play from 47:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 252–253. 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, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing dark shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • person in bonnet, partially visible, likely female visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a horse and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man adjusts the horse’s reins. [frame:2]
Also said
“Every time he opens the door, every time he hears...” 47:47 · “His food won't sit well the rest of his life.” 47:55
Seen
horse [frame:1], fence [frame:1], bonnet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: consequence, avoidance, lingering fear; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man speaks while standing near a horse in an outdoor setting; he mentions not looking up Loretta and describes someone’s ongoing fear. The scene appears to be set in a rugged, open landscape with a fence and rocky terrain visible.

“I won't look up Loretta.” 47:43 · “It's better this way.” 47:45 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 47:42 (passage 47:39–47:59); US record: No renewal found

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