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Angel and the Badman · Beat 31 · permalink

Living room

15:39–15:54 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4715:47

Play from 15:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 65–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding hat, medium build, adult visible, audible
Also said
“Don't hesitate to call on me anytime you need help.” 15:50
Seen
hat, doorway, wall-mounted object (possibly clock or decoration)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: isolation, offered support, domestic unease; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast black-and-white, interior lighting, minimal props

A man in a dark suit stands indoors near a doorway, holding a hat. He speaks about feeling defeated and living in a 'never-never land,' and offers help.

“I stand defeated.” 15:40 · “There are times in this house when I feel as if I were living in a never-never land.” 15:44 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 15:47 (passage 15:39–15:54); US record: No renewal found

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