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Angel and the Badman · Beat 51 · permalink

Private office

21:26–21:52 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2821:28Frame at 21:4121:41

Play from 21:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 117–118. 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 and vest, seated, holding a glass visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing, facing seated man visible
  • man in striped shirt and cowboy hat, standing to right visible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, standing to left visible
Seen happening
  • A man seated in a chair is being addressed by three standing men. [frame:1]
  • One standing man gestures toward the seated man while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“You've been bragging all over town what good friends you two are.” 21:31 · “You know, this fella ain't got many good qualities, has he? Sit down, friend.” 21:36
Seen
glass, cowboy hats, vests
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, deception, interrogation; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing emphasizing confrontation

A man in a patterned shirt sits while three others, including one in a cowboy hat, stand around him in an interior setting. The transcript indicates an interrogation about someone named Quirt Evans, with accusations of lying and bragging.

“Well, gentlemen, I hardly know Quirk Evans. Uh-oh.” 21:26 · “He lies, too.” 21:30 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 21:28 (passage 21:26–21:52); US record: No renewal found

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