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Angel and the Badman · Beat 215 · permalink

Living room

1:12:39–1:13:43 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 1:13:111:13:11

Play from 1:12:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 96 · shots 447–447. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Court (named at t:73:37): man, wearing a hat and dark shirt, standing facing the woman visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a dim interior, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“I think it was because I frightened you.” 73:02 · “No, Court, that's what you were afraid of, that I'd tie myself around your neck, and when you got tired, you couldn't be rid of me.” 73:37
Seen
hat, dark shirt, light-colored blouse
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, intimate, emotionally charged; themes: fear of commitment, misunderstanding in relationships, emotional vulnerability; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, shadowed background, focused on character interaction

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit interior space, engaged in a tense conversation about past separation and fear of commitment. The dialogue reveals the man's belief that the woman left because she feared being trapped in a relationship with him.

“You came back?” 72:46 · “Why?” 72:52 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 1:13:11 (passage 1:12:39–1:13:43); US record: No renewal found

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