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Angel and the Badman · Beat 219 · permalink

Private office

1:14:40–1:15:07 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:441:14:44Frame at 1:14:511:14:51Frame at 1:15:011:15:01

Play from 1:14:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 97 · shots 454–456. 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, middle-aged, wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and a star-shaped badge visible
  • woman, young, dark hair, wearing a light blouse with a tied neck scarf visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, partially visible from behind visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing beside p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat is shown in a medium close-up. [frame:1]
  • A young woman is shown in a medium close-up, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
  • Three people are shown together: a woman, a man in a cowboy hat, and another man seen from behind. [frame:3]
Also said
“You been over Castle Verdeway? I've been to Rimrock, and I got witnesses to prove it.” 74:56 · “Randy McCall.” 75:03
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], star-shaped badge [frame:1], neck scarf [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, witnesses, travel; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and group shots, studio lighting

A man in a cowboy hat and a woman in a light blouse are shown in conversation; a third man in a cowboy hat is visible in a group shot. The transcript includes dialogue about travel, witnesses, and names like Randy McCall and Christine Taylor.

“And he sure covered a lot of country.” 74:40 · “I just wanted to see what the young lady lied for you.” 74:46 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 1:14:44 (passage 1:14:40–1:15:07); US record: No renewal found

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