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Angel and the Badman · Beat 28 · permalink

Living room

14:33–14:55 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:3714:37Frame at 14:4314:43Frame at 14:5014:50

Play from 14:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 15 · shots 56–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark dress with a white collar visible, audible
Also said
“But he's much better off here. Of course he is, but who cares what happens to him?” 14:45 · “We do.” 14:49
Seen
coffee cup and saucer, metal pitcher, wooden table, wooden door or paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and morally charged; themes: moral responsibility, social class, domestic conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests period drama

A man and a woman sit at a table in an interior setting, discussing the fate of a third person. The dialogue suggests disagreement over whether to move him to a local hotel or keep him where he is.

“Let me get this man out of your house.” 14:33 · “I can dump him in the establishment that passes for a hotel in this oft-times dubious community of ours.” 14:36 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 14:37 (passage 14:33–14:55); US record: No renewal found

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