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Angel and the Badman · Beat 127 · permalink

Field

51:22–51:47 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2651:26Frame at 51:3151:31Frame at 51:3651:36Frame at 51:4351:43

Play from 51:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 283–286. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a dark suit and bowler hat, medium build visible, audible
  • woman wearing a light-colored dress with a dark apron, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark coat and scarf, visible from the side visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand near a wagon, interacting. [frame:1]
  • A man in a bowler hat gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man stands beside a wagon with horses in the background. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman walk away together through a wooded area. [frame:4]
Also said
“Close and putty.” 51:33 · “I'm going to go.” 51:35
Seen
wagon [frame:3], horses [frame:3], bowler hat [frame:2], apron [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly tense; themes: rural life, interpersonal interaction, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

A man and a woman interact near a wagon in an outdoor setting; the man gestures while speaking and then walks away with the woman. The scene includes horses and a wagon, suggesting a rural or frontier context.

“Oh, fine. Well, I'll get some water. Here, let me help you.” 51:22 · “I'm going to twirl this thing.” 51:30 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 51:26 (passage 51:22–51:47); US record: No renewal found

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