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Angel and the Badman · Beat 266 · permalink

Private office

1:29:50–1:30:21 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; 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 1:30:051:30:05

Play from 1:29:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 538–538. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark clothing, suspenders, short hair, medium build visible
  • man, white shirt, dark vest, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing stands facing left while another man in a vest stands with his back to the camera. [frame:1]
Seen
stone wall [frame:1], wooden chair (in background) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, weary; themes: family duty, moral fatigue, domestic urgency; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, period costume

A man in dark clothing stands in a stone-walled interior while another man in a vest is seen from behind; a voice expresses fatigue and calls for 'Father' to come upstairs. No named characters are identified in the dialogue or visuals.

“And I'm too tired to be cynical.” 90:06 · “Father! Father! Come upstairs!” 90:16 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 1:30:05 (passage 1:29:50–1:30:21); US record: No renewal found

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