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Angel and the Badman · Beat 135 · permalink

Field

53:37–53:55 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 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 53:4053:40Frame at 53:4753:47Frame at 53:5353:53

Play from 53:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 303–305. 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 suit, bow tie, wide-brimmed hat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • group of men seated on benches, wearing suits and hats, mostly facing speaker visible
Seen happening
  • The speaker stands before a group seated on benches in a field with rocky outcrops. [frame:1]
  • The speaker adjusts his coat while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The speaker continues addressing the group, hands near his chest. [frame:3]
Also said
“We all know the purpose of this meeting is threefold.” 53:40 · “that the fields are again watered.” 53:51
Seen
wooden benches [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], rocky outcrops [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, formal; themes: community gathering, agricultural prosperity, public address; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting

A man in a dark suit and bow tie addresses a seated group outdoors near rocky terrain. He speaks about a meeting's purpose and mentions fields being watered and crops thriving.

“May I have your attention?” 53:37 · “Friends?” 53:40 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 53:40 (passage 53:37–53:55); US record: No renewal found

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