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Angel and the Badman · Beat 204 · permalink

Theatre

1:08:47–1:08:58 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:08:491:08:49Frame at 1:08:521:08:52Frame at 1:08:551:08:55

Play from 1:08:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 419–421. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in light-colored dress with dark suspenders, holding a small object visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing to the right of p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, standing to the left of p1, partially obscured visible
  • man in top hat, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame 3, laughing or shouting visible
Seen
balcony railing [frame:1], chandelier [frame:2], small object held by woman [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: social gathering, observation from above, dramatic moment; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots from above, theatrical lighting

A group of people are gathered on a balcony overlooking a dimly lit, crowded room with a chandelier. One woman holds a small object while others look on or react.

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 1:08:49 (passage 1:08:47–1:08:58); US record: No renewal found

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