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Angel and the Badman · Beat 122 · permalink

Field

49:19–49:44 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:2149:21Frame at 49:2649:26Frame at 49:3549:35Frame at 49:4249:42

Play from 49:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 269–272. 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 light-colored dress visible, audible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and bandana visible, audible
  • Quirt (named at t:49:38): man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and vest over a shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit together outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A third man joins them, seated nearby. [frame:2]
  • The third man speaks while looking off-camera. [frame:3]
  • The first man and woman look toward the third man as he speaks. [frame:4]
Also said
“You know, ma'am, I sure am an old friend of course.” 49:30 · “In Opo's Palace down in San Antone? We're late.” 49:42
Seen
cowboy hat, bonnet, bandana, wide-brimmed hat, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational and nostalgic; themes: friendship, shared memory, Western frontier life; style notes: medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film stock, period Western costume

A man and a woman sit outdoors while a second man recounts past events involving cattle and a saloon. The conversation suggests a social gathering is being discussed, with references to shared history and a location in San Antonio.

“Yes, it's a meeting.” 49:20 · “Be nice if you could. We'd be happy to have any friend of court's.” 49:24 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 49:21 (passage 49:19–49:44); US record: No renewal found

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