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Angel and the Badman · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

7:38–7:59 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:437:43Frame at 7:537:53

Play from 7:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 23–24. 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:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, standing, medium build, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in dark clothing, leaning forward, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
Seen happening
  • One man stands while another leans forward in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A lantern is lit on a table. [frame:1]
  • The scene widens to show more of the room and a bed in the background. [frame:2]
Also said
“By now, he should be completely inert.” 7:44 · “All right.” 7:53
Seen
lantern [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1], bed [frame:2], wooden chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: confusion, reluctant compliance, medical or physical anomaly; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, medium close-up to medium shot

Two men are in a dimly lit room with a lantern; one stands while the other leans forward. The transcript suggests confusion about someone's expected inert state, followed by reluctant agreement.

“As if he were reaching for something.” 7:39 · “I don't understand it.” 7:43 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 7:43 (passage 7:38–7:59); US record: No renewal found

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