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Angel and the Badman · Beat 115 · permalink

Road

48:01–48:23 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:0448:04Frame at 48:0948:09Frame at 48:1348:13Frame at 48:1948:19

Play from 48:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 255–258. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark shirt, standing near a horse visible
  • woman in bonnet and dress, smiling broadly visible
  • multiple people in a wagon, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a horse while a woman in a bonnet faces him. [frame:1]
  • The woman laughs with her head tilted back. [frame:2]
  • A wagon with several passengers travels on a dirt road past a large rock formation. [frame:3]
  • The wagon continues along the road, partially obscured by trees. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 48:11
Seen
horse, wagon, bonnet, rock formation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted with a hint of surprise; themes: humor in piety, journey, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

A man and a woman stand near a horse outside a building; the woman laughs. A wagon carrying several people travels on a dirt road through a rocky landscape. The transcript includes a line about being holy and having fun, followed by agreement and an exclamation.

“Well, all right, but if I'm going to be holy, I've got to get some fun out of it.” 48:02 · “Yeah.” 48:07 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 48:04 (passage 48:01–48:23); US record: No renewal found

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