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Angel and the Badman · Beat 278 · permalink

Bar

1:34:15–1:34:36 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; 5 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 1:34:201:34:20Frame at 1:34:271:34:27Frame at 1:34:331:34:33

Play from 1:34:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 562–564. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and striped shirt, holding a bottle visible
  • man in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing visible
  • older man in vest and shirt, seated visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, standing near bar visible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, standing near bar visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped shirt offers a drink to another man in a plaid shirt. [frame:1]
  • An older man in a vest is seated and looking upward. [frame:2]
  • Multiple men stand near a bar with bottles on shelves behind them. [frame:3]
Also said
“Sure.” 94:26 · “I wonder if that sharpshoot marshal's around town. Oh, I saw him right out of town an hour ago.” 94:31
Seen
bottle [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1], bar counter [frame:3], bottles on shelf [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, Western bar setting, tension between characters; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes, brick and wood interiors

Two men in cowboy hats converse in a dimly lit room with brick walls; one offers a drink. A third man in a vest is later seen seated, and a wider shot shows multiple men standing near a bar with bottles visible.

“to build up your nerve to come out. You fixing to get your ears pinned back? There's a better pair of ears out in the street if you want to pin somebody's ears back.” 94:16 · “Here, you drink this.” 94:23 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 1:34:20 (passage 1:34:15–1:34:36); US record: No renewal found

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