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Angel and the Badman · Beat 152 · permalink

Desert

58:00–58:29 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:0258:02Frame at 58:0858:08Frame at 58:2058:20

Play from 58:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 339–341. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • person wearing a hat and dark clothing, riding a horse visible
  • multiple riders on horseback, distant visible
  • person driving a covered wagon, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A person on horseback is stationary in a rocky landscape. [frame:1]
  • Riders on horseback move across a desert landscape. [frame:2]
  • A covered wagon and riders are visible in a hilly, arid terrain. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hang on. Go.” 58:23
Seen
horse [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], covered wagon [frame:3], hat [frame:1], saddle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: escape, journey, western landscape; style notes: wide shots, black and white, natural lighting, expansive desert setting

A person on horseback is seen in a rocky, arid landscape; a wagon and riders are visible in the distance. Spoken lines suggest urgency and movement away from a location.

“Let's get out of here.” 58:02 · “Look, come down off the hill.” 58:04 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 58:02 (passage 58:00–58:29); US record: No renewal found

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