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Angel and the Badman · Beat 139 · permalink

Outdoor gathering

54:28–54:51 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 54:2954:29Frame at 54:3254:32Frame at 54:4454:44Frame at 54:5054:50

Play from 54:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 312–316. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor_gathering (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Quart Evans (named at t:54:29): man wearing wide-brimmed light hat, bandana, dark vest; mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing dark hat, light shirt; mid-adult, medium build visible
  • partially visible person in dark hat, left side visible
Seen happening
  • Quart Evans speaks to a group outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Quart Evans gestures while speaking to another man. [frame:2]
  • Quart Evans continues speaking, looking downward. [frame:3]
  • Quart Evans looks up while speaking, others listening. [frame:4]
Also said
“that all men are good if they are shown the light. He persuaded Frederick Carson to let down the water” 54:37 · “that a man who is a friend to other men” 54:45
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, bandana, dark vest, dark hat, light shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reflective; themes: moral redemption, community judgment, personal transformation; style notes: medium close-up shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man in a wide-brimmed hat and bandana speaks to a group outdoors; another man in a dark hat listens. The transcript mentions Quart Evans and a moral lesson about showing kindness to others.

“This is Quart Evans.” 54:29 · “We're happy to have him here with us because he provided another incident.” 54:31 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 54:29 (passage 54:28–54:51); US record: No renewal found

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