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Angel and the Badman · Beat 289 · permalink

Street

1:37:19–1:37:25 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:37:201:37:20Frame at 1:37:241:37:24

Play from 1:37:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 583–584. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored ruffled blouse visible
  • man in a light cowboy hat and striped shirt, standing visible
  • man in a dark cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing visible
  • Quirt (named at t:97:21): man, back to camera, dark clothing visible, audible
Seen
cowboy hat, plaid shirt, striped shirt, building with sign
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western genre; style notes: medium shots, black and white, high contrast lighting, Western costume

A woman speaks to a man named Quirt, who is not visible in the frame. Two men in cowboy hats and shirts stand outside a building with a sign.

“Why don't you turn around, Quirt?” 97:21 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 1:37:20 (passage 1:37:19–1:37:25); US record: No renewal found

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