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Angel and the Badman · Beat 43 · permalink

Living room

19:10–19:39 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:1219:12Frame at 19:1719:17Frame at 19:3119:31Frame at 19:3619:36

Play from 19:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 96–100. 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
  • man, wearing a light shirt, seated, holding a cup visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a light dress with a white collar, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit facing each other in a room with a stone wall. [frame:1]
  • The man drinks from a cup while the woman speaks to him. [frame:2]
  • The woman gestures while speaking to the man. [frame:3]
  • A plaque on the stone wall reads: 'EACH HUMAN BEING HAS AN INTEGRITY THAT CAN BE HURT ONLY BY THE ACT OF THAT SAME HUMAN BEING AND NOT BY THE ACT OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.' [frame:4]
Also said
“A society of friends. Many people call us Quakers.” 19:25 · “Each human being has an integrity that can be heard only by the act of that same human being.” 19:34
Seen
plaque [frame:4], cup [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1]
On screen
EACH HUMAN BEING HAS AN INTEGRITY THAT CAN BE HURT ONLY BY THE ACT OF THAT SAME HUMAN BEING AND NOT BY THE ACT OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and conversational; themes: religious belief, personal integrity, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, focused on character interaction

A man and a woman sit in a room with a stone wall, discussing Quakers and a belief about human integrity. A plaque on the wall displays a quote about integrity that is also referenced in the dialogue.

“Do all you people from Pennsylvania talk like that?” 19:14 · “We're friends.” 19:21 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 19:12 (passage 19:10–19:39); US record: No renewal found

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