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Angel and the Badman · Beat 50 · permalink

Private office

21:04–21:26 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; 4 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 21:0421:04Frame at 21:0921:09Frame at 21:1621:16Frame at 21:2221:22

Play from 21:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 113–116. 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 in patterned shirt, holding a bottle, seated visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, standing visible
  • Quirt Evans (named at t:21:13): man in cowboy hat, vest, glasses, standing visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, checkered shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a bottle and speaks while seated. [frame:1]
  • Three men in cowboy hats stand together, one asking about Quirt Evans. [frame:2]
  • The man with the bottle continues speaking. [frame:3]
  • The three men remain standing, engaged in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Ever notice how a fellow keep repeating the question when he's stalling about answering?” 21:19 · “Maybe if I bend his gun over his head, he'll quit stalling.” 21:24
Seen
bottle, cowboy hats, gun
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, withholding information, threat; style notes: medium close-ups and group shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man in a patterned shirt holds a bottle while speaking; three men in cowboy hats stand together, one asking about Quirt Evans. The dialogue suggests tension over withholding information, with a threat involving a gun.

“On second thought, you can just tell me where he is, and I'll take him on back to him myself.” 21:08 · “Where is Quirt Evans?” 21:13 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 21:04 (passage 21:04–21:26); US record: No renewal found

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