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Angel and the Badman · Beat 247 · permalink

Garden

1:22:26–1:22:36 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:311:22:31

Play from 1:22:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 495–495. 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
  • Court Evans (named at t:82:27): woman, mid-20s to 30s, dark hair, wearing a light-colored sleeveless top with a collar, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen smiling while seated outdoors. [frame:1]
Also said
“Where'd they ever get such an odd name?” 82:34
Seen
hat, foliage
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational; themes: identity, naming, casual dialogue; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, natural lighting, soft focus on background foliage

A woman smiles while seated outdoors as dialogue about the name 'Court Evans' is spoken. The setting appears to be a garden or wooded area with foliage visible behind her.

“Court Evans.” 82:27 · “I just like the sound of it.” 82:31 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 1:22:31 (passage 1:22:26–1:22:36); US record: No renewal found

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