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Angel and the Badman · Beat 235 · permalink

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1:18:57–1:19:52 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 1:19:241:19:24

Play from 1:18:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 479–479. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Quirk (named at t:78:57): man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and vest, standing, holding reins visible, audible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark scarf, seated on horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat gestures while speaking to another man on horseback. [frame:1]
Also said
“Should marry some young fella.” 79:26 · “Do I have to run you off?” 79:50
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], horse [frame:1], reins [frame:1], scarf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: confrontation, unfulfilled expectations, romantic future; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats are outdoors in a rocky landscape; one stands holding reins and gestures while speaking, the other sits on a horse listening. The dialogue suggests a confrontation about a woman and a future that did not unfold as expected.

“You know, Quirk,” 78:57 · “Kind of respected you.” 79:05 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 1:19:24 (passage 1:18:57–1:19:52); US record: No renewal found

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