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Angel and the Badman · Beat 272 · permalink

Bar

1:32:03–1:32:58 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:32:271:32:27Frame at 1:32:531:32:53Frame at 1:32:571:32:57

Play from 1:32:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 127 · shots 549–551. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a striped shirt and light-colored hat, seated at a bar visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark vest, bow tie, and light shirt, standing near a brick wall visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and striped shirt, seated at a piano visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped shirt and hat speaks at a bar. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest and bow tie stands near a brick wall. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat sits at a piano while another man faces him. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why get excited? Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.” 92:26 · “I'm just a carrier in a message.” 92:45
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], piano [frame:3], brick wall [frame:2], hats (cowboy and light-colored) [frame:1, frame:3], bow tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: message delivery, celebration, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period Western attire

A man in a striped shirt and hat speaks at a bar while another man in a vest and bow tie listens; a third man in a cowboy hat sits at a piano. The transcript includes dialogue about delivering a message and celebrating a win.

“Is a miracle.” 92:03 · “Hey, buy the boys a drink.” 92:16 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 1:32:27 (passage 1:32:03–1:32:58); US record: No renewal found

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