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Angel and the Badman · Beat 296 · permalink

Street

1:37:53–1:38:00 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:37:571:37:57

Play from 1:37:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 591–591. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying on ground, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • man standing in doorway, wearing hat and dark shirt visible
  • man standing in doorway, wearing hat and light shirt visible
  • man standing on sidewalk, wearing vest and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies motionless on the ground outside a building. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand near the doorway and sidewalk, observing the man on the ground. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], building with 'BEER' signs [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], sidewalk [frame:1]
On screen
BEER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, violence, western setting; style notes: black and white, studio lighting, medium shot framing, static camera

A man lies on the ground outside a building with 'BEER' signs, while three men stand in the doorway and on the sidewalk. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting and appears to be set in a town square or street.

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 1:37:57 (passage 1:37:53–1:38:00); US record: No renewal found

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