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Angel and the Badman · Beat 33 · permalink

Bedroom

16:03–16:23 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0716:07Frame at 16:1316:13Frame at 16:1916:19

Play from 16:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 67–69. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a bow at the neck visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man lies in bed with his eyes closed. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands in the room, looking toward the man. [frame:2]
  • The man sits up in bed holding a pistol. [frame:3]
Seen
pistol [frame:3], bed [frame:1], pillow [frame:1], checkered blanket [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, intimacy under threat; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting

A shirtless man lies in bed, then sits up holding a pistol while a woman stands nearby. The transcript includes an exclamation and an incomplete sentence.

“Oh, wow.” 16:09 · “I'm” 16:14 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 16:07 (passage 16:03–16:23); US record: No renewal found

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