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Angel and the Badman · Beat 17 · permalink

Attic

8:38–8:58 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; 5 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 8:408:40Frame at 8:508:50

Play from 8:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 30–31. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
attic (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure standing near a bed, wearing dark clothing visible
  • person lying on a bed, motionless, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • woman holding a lamp, wearing a dress, standing near the bed visible
  • man standing near the bed, wearing dark clothing visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A silhouetted figure stands near a bed in an attic. [frame:1]
  • A woman holds a lamp while standing near a bed where a man lies, surrounded by others. [frame:2]
Also said
“A gun. That's a pity.” 8:50 · “These wild ones, I keep picking bullets out of them and setting their bones. Why?” 8:53
Seen
bed [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], wooden beams [frame:1], window with pointed arch [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: consequences of violence, medical care in crisis, frustration with recurring injury; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, silhouetted figures, tight framing around the bed, use of shadow to obscure details

A man lies on a bed in a dim attic while others stand around him; one person speaks about tying someone down and mentions a gun. The setting is an attic with wooden beams and a window, and the dialogue suggests frustration over treating injured people.

“Maybe we'll have to get something and tie him down.” 8:38 · “Are you crazy? It's empty.” 8:42 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 8:40 (passage 8:38–8:58); US record: No renewal found

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