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Angel and the Badman · Beat 297 · permalink

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1:38:00–1:38:19 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:38:091:38:09

Play from 1:38:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 139 · shots 592–592. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, dark coat, and patterned scarf visible
  • back of a person’s head and shoulder, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat faces another person in front of a brick wall with partial signage. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'd hang you.” 98:11 · “Son of... killing three Hawks with one stone so to speak.” 98:13
Seen
cowboy hat, brick wall with partial signage reading 'GRAIN', dark coat, patterned scarf
On screen
GRAIN
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, revenge, western justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expression and costume detail

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to another person in front of a brick wall with partial signage reading 'GRAIN'. The transcript includes fragmented lines suggesting confrontation and a plan involving 'killing three Hawks with one stone'.

“I had then did the rights.” 98:01 · “They got the Baker stage. So I figured I'd watch the ruckus.” 98:03 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 1:38:09 (passage 1:38:00–1:38:19); US record: No renewal found

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