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Angel and the Badman · Beat 148 · permalink

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57:14–57:38 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:1757:17Frame at 57:2957:29

Play from 57:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 333–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing on rocks visible
  • group of men in cowboy hats, some seated, one standing in dark shirt and white hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands on a rock formation. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in cowboy hats gather below, one standing and facing them. [frame:2]
Also said
“Let's saddle up, now.” 57:34
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2], rock formation [frame:1], rifle leaning against rock [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: western frontier, group coordination, outdoor confrontation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing landscape and group dynamics, silhouetted figures against sky

A man in a cowboy hat stands on a rock formation while others gather below; dialogue indicates they are preparing to ride. The setting is outdoors in a rocky, open landscape during daylight.

“Hey, boss!” 57:19 · “Yeah? Right on time. Look behind you.” 57:21 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 57:17 (passage 57:14–57:38); US record: No renewal found

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