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Angel and the Badman · Beat 172 · permalink

Field

1:01:07–1:01:15 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 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 1:01:091:01:09Frame at 1:01:131:01:13

Play from 1:01:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 367–368. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark clothing and hat, riding a horse visible
  • person in light hat and dark clothing, riding a horse visible
  • person in dark hat and clothing, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse through a smoky outdoor area. [frame:1]
  • Two riders on horseback are seen side by side in a smoky outdoor area. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], horse [frame:2], smoke or fog [frame:1], smoke or fog [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or mysterious; themes: movement, outdoor journey, uncertainty; style notes: low-contrast black-and-white, atmospheric smoke, medium shots of riders

A person rides a horse in a smoky, outdoor setting; two riders on horseback are seen together in a similar environment. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:01:09 (passage 1:01:07–1:01:15); US record: No renewal found

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