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Angel and the Badman · Beat 136 · permalink

Field

53:55–54:16 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; 6 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 54:0054:00Frame at 54:0654:06Frame at 54:1154:11

Play from 53:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 54 · shots 306–308. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, and bandana visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark bow tie, and belt with holster visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, standing behind p2 in frame 2 visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, walking on wooden structure in frame 3 visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, walking on wooden structure in frame 3 visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, partially visible behind p4 in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward the landscape while seated next to another man. [frame:1]
  • A man in a bowler hat stands behind another man who gestures toward the distance. [frame:2]
  • A group of men walks across a wooden structure in a rural setting. [frame:3]
Also said
“You can see a herd coming for 10 miles.” 54:00 · “We're at heaven.” 54:03
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], mushroom rocks [frame:2], wooden structure [frame:3], wagon [frame:3], bowler hats [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative and expansive; themes: frontier landscape, group dynamics, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, wide landscape framing

Two men in cowboy hats sit and talk outdoors near distinctive rock formations; one gestures toward the landscape while the other listens. A group of men then walks across a wooden structure in a rural setting with trees and a wagon visible.

“There's two mushroom rocks right at the head of the valley.” 53:55 · “Let's take a look out there.” 53:58 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 54:00 (passage 53:55–54:16); US record: No renewal found

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