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Angel and the Badman · Beat 40 · permalink

Living room

17:56–18:36 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0118:01Frame at 18:0918:09Frame at 18:2618:26Frame at 18:3318:33

Play from 17:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 86–90. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a bow at the neck and a dark skirt or apron visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seated, appears to be shirtless under the shirt or wearing an open shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands holding a pitcher, looking at the man. [frame:1]
  • The woman and man are shown together; the man is seated and looking up at her. [frame:2]
  • The woman speaks, looking concerned or questioning. [frame:3]
  • The woman smiles slightly while holding the pitcher; the man looks down. [frame:4]
Also said
“Talked of Margaret.” 18:14 · “No wife.” 18:30
Seen
pitcher [frame:1], wooden beams [frame:1], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: memory, identity, caregiving; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A woman and a man are in a room with wooden beams; the woman stands holding a pitcher while the man sits and listens. The transcript indicates they are discussing what the man said while unconscious, including mentions of 'Margaret' and 'Lila' and whether he has a wife.

“I listened only because I thought you might say something that would aid us in helping you as to...” 18:02 · “Notifying your wife, for instance? What did I say? If you had a wife...” 18:07 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 18:01 (passage 17:56–18:36); US record: No renewal found

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