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Angel and the Badman · Beat 142 · permalink

Town square

55:04–55:24 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:1155:11Frame at 55:2055:20

Play from 55:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 320–321. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark vest, light scarf visible
  • man wearing dark hat, light shirt, suspenders visible
  • woman wearing dark dress, light headscarf, holding a child in white visible
  • child in white clothing visible
  • man in dark hat and bow tie, partially visible visible
Seen
cowboy hat, wagon, child in white clothing, trees in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, family, Western setting; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period Western costume

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to another man while a woman holds a child near a wagon. The scene is outdoors with trees and a crowd visible.

“I want to talk to you.” 55:17 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 55:11 (passage 55:04–55:24); US record: No renewal found

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