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Angel and the Badman · Beat 207 · permalink

Alley

1:09:21–1:09:54 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:271:09:27Frame at 1:09:371:09:37Frame at 1:09:451:09:45Frame at 1:09:501:09:50

Play from 1:09:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 430–434. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:3
People
  • dark clothing, visible in interior and near doorway visible, audible
  • dark clothing, visible in alley visible
Seen happening
  • A person sits in a dim interior, speaking. [frame:1]
  • A person stands near a doorway with lettering above it. [frame:2]
  • Figures move in a dark alley with a single light source. [frame:3]
  • A person in dark clothing moves among others in a dim outdoor space. [frame:4]
Seen
doorway with lettering, single light source in alley, roped-off area with lantern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, secretive; themes: confrontation, secrecy, nighttime activity; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static camera, medium shots transitioning to wide shots

A person in a dark interior speaks while another stands near a doorway; the scene shifts to a dim outdoor alley where figures move. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be nighttime.

“Don't worry about me. Come on. You wait outside and take them and count them as we throw them out. Don't count. Don't count.” 69:29 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 1:09:27 (passage 1:09:21–1:09:54); US record: No renewal found

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