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Angel and the Badman · Beat 29 · permalink

Living room

14:55–15:24 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5914:59Frame at 15:0715:07Frame at 15:1315:13Frame at 15:1915:19

Play from 14:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 59–62. 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, light hair in a bun, wearing a dark dress with a white collar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit at a table facing each other. [frame:1]
  • The man raises a pistol in his right hand while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man holds the pistol pointed upward, continuing to speak. [frame:3]
  • The woman smiles at the man while seated at the table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Cobras don't coil.” 15:16 · “And we respect you so greatly.” 15:22
Seen
pistol, pistol, coffee cup and saucer, metal pitcher, wooden chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conversational; themes: dialogue-driven tension, academic debate, personal rapport; style notes: medium close-up shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume

A man and a woman sit at a table in an interior setting, conversing while one holds a pistol. The dialogue references a past anecdote about an artist and a cobra, followed by a correction about cobra behavior.

“He'd have drawn this man as a coiled cobra.” 15:07 · “Oh, Doctor, your analogy is terribly imperfect, and your naturalism faulty.” 15:10 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 14:59 (passage 14:55–15:24); US record: No renewal found

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