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Angel and the Badman · Beat 128 · permalink

Forest

51:47–52:02 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:5251:52Frame at 51:5951:59

Play from 51:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 287–288. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a white collar, visible in frame 1 visible
  • Quirt (named at t:51:49): man, dark hair, wearing a dark shirt and vest, holding a baby wrapped in white, visible in frames 1-2 visible, audible
  • baby, wrapped in white cloth, held by p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman reaches for flowers held by a man. [frame:1]
  • The man holding a baby reacts with surprise to the woman's request. [frame:1]
Also said
“I don't believe it.” 52:01
Seen
flowers [frame:1], baby wrapped in white cloth [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and surprised; themes: unexpected request, emotional reaction, parental care; style notes: medium close-up, natural lighting, black-and-white film, outdoor setting with dappled sunlight

A woman reaches for flowers held by a man who is holding a baby; the man reacts with surprise. The scene occurs outdoors in daylight, with trees visible in the background.

“Hold on a minute, Quirt. I want some of those flowers.” 51:49 · “What's up? You sick or something?” 51:56 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 51:52 (passage 51:47–52:02); US record: No renewal found

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