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Angel and the Badman · Beat 246 · permalink

Garden

1:21:54–1:22:26 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 1:22:101:22:10

Play from 1:21:54 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 115 · shots 494–494. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, seated visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, seated, wearing light dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit near flowers and talk about a wasp. [frame:1]
Also said
“And incidentally, that's not a petunia, that's” 82:19 · “That's a petunia.” 82:22
Seen
flowers [frame:1], hat [frame:1], wasp [t:82:07]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: nature, miscommunication, playful dialogue; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a woman sit outdoors near flowers while discussing a wasp and the identity of a flower. The woman corrects the man’s identification of the flower, and he responds with a playful remark about trust.

“Look out, there's a wasp on that petunia. Don't kill him!” 82:07 · “Well, it's all right for you to trust, Wasp.” 82:11 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 1:22:10 (passage 1:21:54–1:22:26); US record: No renewal found

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