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Angel and the Badman · Beat 117 · permalink

Road

48:24–48:33 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:2748:27Frame at 48:3148:31

Play from 48:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 260–261. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman wearing bonnet and light dress, seated visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark coat, seated visible
  • man wearing dark hat and coat, seated, facing right visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing scarf and dark jacket, seated visible
  • rider on horseback, distant, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Four people are seated together outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A lone rider on horseback travels along a road through mountains. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:2], bonnet [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], dark hat [frame:1], scarf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: travel, reflection, Western setting; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shot, medium group shot, natural lighting

A group of four people, including two women and two men in period Western attire, are seated together outdoors. A lone rider on horseback travels along a winding road through a mountainous landscape.

“You know I feel like such a gadabove.” 48:24 · “It seems hardly a whole week since last Thursday.” 48:27 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 48:27 (passage 48:24–48:33); US record: No renewal found

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