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Angel and the Badman · Beat 125 · permalink

Field

50:34–50:54 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:3850:38Frame at 50:4550:45Frame at 50:4950:49Frame at 50:5350:53

Play from 50:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 278–281. 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 in dark vest and light neckerchief, seated in wagon visible
  • woman in light dress holding a baby, seated in wagon visible
  • baby in white bonnet, held by p2 visible
  • Nelson (named at t:50:44): man in dark suit and hat, standing outside wagon visible, audible
  • Gregcourt Evans (named at t:50:45): man in light shirt and dark vest, standing outside wagon visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman sit in a wagon with a baby. [frame:1]
  • A man approaches the wagon and speaks to the occupants. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand outside the wagon talking while a woman holds a baby. [frame:3]
  • A woman holds a baby and looks off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Nelson, Gregcourt Evans.” 50:45 · “And Nelson's our horseshoe.” 50:50
Seen
wooden wagon [frame:1], baby in white bonnet [frame:4], dark suit and hat [frame:3], light neckerchief [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: introduction, social interaction, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man and a woman sit in a wagon with a baby while another man approaches; they exchange greetings and introductions. The scene takes place outdoors in daylight with trees and open land visible.

“What comes out of this thing that makes it worth all this work? Frozen pudding.” 50:34 · “Hello, Nelson. Hello, Penny.” 50:44 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 50:38 (passage 50:34–50:54); US record: No renewal found

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