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Angel and the Badman · Beat 49 · permalink

Private office

20:40–21:04 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:4420:44Frame at 20:5220:52Frame at 20:5920:59

Play from 20:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 110–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing light shirt and vest, holding a glass visible
  • standing man in dark hat and bow tie, holding items visible
  • standing man in light hat and vest, leaning on barrel visible
  • standing man in dark hat, partially visible visible
  • Quirt Evans (named at t:20:47): man seated, wearing dark jacket and patterned shirt, holding object to mouth visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark hat hands items to a seated man. [frame:1]
  • The seated man holds an object to his mouth while looking down. [frame:3]
Also said
“I understand you're a friend of his. I thought maybe you'd see that he gets them back. Leave him here. I'll see if he gets them.” 20:49 · “He'd lose his shirt if it was buttoned on.” 20:56
Seen
glass, barrel, hat, bow tie, items being handed, object held to mouth
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: personal responsibility, return of property, character assessment; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes

A man seated in a chair is handed items by standing men in a room with windows and barrels; one man mentions Quirt Evans and offers to return belongings. The seated man reacts while another man comments on Evans's carelessness.

“I found these out on the road.” 20:44 · “It belonged to a fellow named Quirt Evans.” 20:47 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 20:44 (passage 20:40–21:04); US record: No renewal found

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