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Angel and the Badman · Beat 252 · permalink

Field

1:23:47–1:24:25 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:561:23:56Frame at 1:24:061:24:06Frame at 1:24:111:24:11Frame at 1:24:201:24:20

Play from 1:23:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 501–504. 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
  • man in hat and dark clothes, crouching with rifle visible
  • man in hat and dark clothes, crouching with rifle visible
  • man in light hat and coat, seated in wagon visible
  • woman in light dress and bonnet, seated in wagon visible
  • group of riders on horseback, indistinct visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two men crouch behind rocks holding rifles. [frame:1]
  • A man and woman sit in a wagon, the man holding reins. [frame:2]
  • A wagon pulled by horses moves along a dirt path. [frame:3]
  • A group of people on horseback travels along a wooded path. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle, wagon, horses, horses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: concealed threat, travel under duress; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two armed men crouch behind rocks while a man and woman ride in a wagon; later, a group travels on horseback along a dirt path. A voice states that one man has a gun despite not being seen with one.

“I don't see any gun.” 83:57 · “I know him. He's got a gun all right. I know him.” 83:59 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 1:23:56 (passage 1:23:47–1:24:25); US record: No renewal found

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