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Angel and the Badman · Beat 27 · permalink

Kitchen

13:57–14:33 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0414:04Frame at 14:2214:22

Play from 13:57 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 15 · shots 54–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman in white apron, dark hair, mid-adult visible
  • woman seated at table, dark hair, wearing dark dress visible
  • man seated at table, dark hair, wearing dark suit visible
  • unseen patient, mentioned as recovering mentioned
  • Penny (named at t:14:07): unseen speaker, possibly female, referring to Penny audible
  • Mrs. Worth (named at t:14:19): unseen speaker, possibly female, offering doughnut audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in an apron stands at a counter while two others sit at a table. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the apron holds a pencil and paper while standing near the seated pair. [frame:2]
Also said
“His first conscious words should be recorded. They may be of great interest to history.” 14:11 · “Would you care for a doughnut, Doctor? They're not as light as they should be.” 14:19
Seen
apron [frame:1], pencil and paper [frame:2], table with glassware [frame:2], doughnut [t:14:19]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: caregiving under pressure, impending legal or violent consequences, domestic space as site of conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, domestic interior framing

A woman in a white apron stands at a counter while another woman and a man sit at a table; dialogue suggests a patient is recovering and someone named Penny is being assigned to watch him. The setting appears to be a kitchen or dining area where food is being offered.

“He's had no temperature these past few days. Just a superlatively healthy animal, restoring his depleted strength with sleep.” 13:58 · “But of course, if you're determined to watch over him, Penny...” 14:07 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 14:04 (passage 13:57–14:33); US record: No renewal found

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