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Angel and the Badman · Beat 138 · permalink

Outdoor group

54:18–54:28 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:2154:21Frame at 54:2654:26

Play from 54:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 310–311. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor_group (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, bow tie, and hat, holding a book visible
  • man in light vest and hat, receiving the book visible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit presents a book to another man. [frame:1]
  • The recipient holds the book, which has a cross on the cover. [frame:2]
Seen
book with cross, suit and bow tie, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: gift-giving, friendship, religious symbolism; style notes: medium shot of group, close-up on object; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; static camera

A man in a suit and bow tie presents a dark book with a cross on its cover to another man; the recipient is shown holding the book. The transcript indicates the gift is a token of friendship.

“We're happy to present you with this token of our friendship for you.” 54:19 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 54:21 (passage 54:18–54:28); US record: No renewal found

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