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Angel and the Badman · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

8:58–9:26 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:129:12

Play from 8:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 32–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing vest and shirt, seated, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman, wearing light blouse, standing or seated nearby, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man speaks while seated next to a woman in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“Never speak evil, huh?” 9:04 · “It's their destiny to wind up on Boot Hill. No.” 8:58
Seen
wooden wall [frame:1], table or surface with items [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, pragmatic; themes: care under duress, preparation, dialogue-driven; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costume, interior set

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space; the man speaks while seated, and the woman is present nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about patching someone up and moving a boat, suggesting a scene of care or preparation.

“Get me some more hot water, young lady, and we'll start patching him up for whatever's in store for him.” 9:08 · “Come on, help me with this boat.” 9:16 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 9:12 (passage 8:58–9:26); US record: No renewal found

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