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Angel and the Badman · Beat 220 · permalink

Private office

1:15:07–1:15:30 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:15:101:15:10Frame at 1:15:151:15:15Frame at 1:15:211:15:21Frame at 1:15:271:15:27

Play from 1:15:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 97 · shots 457–460. 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 and dark shirt with neckerchief, arms crossed visible
  • woman, dark hair, light blouse with white neckerchief visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt with neckerchief visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt with neckerchief visible
Also said
“Christine and Lila.” 75:19 · “So Lala saw you there too, huh?” 75:25
Seen
cowboy hat, neck scarf, stone fireplace, cowboy hat, white neckerchief, cowboy hat, cowboy hat, white neckerchief
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: witness testimony, alibi, Western genre; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, Western costume

Two people in Western attire speak indoors; one man is shown alone with arms crossed, then with a woman. The dialogue mentions witnesses named Lala Neal, Christine, and Randy.

“That's what I call witnesses.” 75:08 · “Lala Neal, I suppose.” 75:13 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 1:15:10 (passage 1:15:07–1:15:30); US record: No renewal found

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