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Angel and the Badman · Beat 254 · permalink

Desert

1:24:41–1:24:59 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:451:24:45Frame at 1:24:501:24:50Frame at 1:24:561:24:56

Play from 1:24:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 507–509. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person on horse, wearing dark clothing and hat visible
  • man in hat, driving carriage visible
  • woman in light dress and bonnet, seated in carriage visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse across a desert landscape. [frame:1]
  • Two people are seated in a moving carriage. [frame:2]
  • The horse rider continues moving across the desert. [frame:3]
Seen
horse, carriage, hat, bonnet
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: open, motion-filled; themes: travel, frontier, journey; style notes: wide shots, motion blur suggests speed, black-and-white film stock, natural lighting

A person rides a horse across a desert landscape, followed by a shot of two people in a carriage, then the horse rider again. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:24:45 (passage 1:24:41–1:24:59); US record: No renewal found

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