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Angel and the Badman · Beat 57 · permalink

Private office

23:34–23:55 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4123:41Frame at 23:5223:52

Play from 23:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 27 · shots 131–132. 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 dark jacket, medium build, short hair visible
  • woman with dark hair, light blouse, visible face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand close together in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks at the man while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well...” 23:52 · “that night.” 23:55
Seen
wall sconce lamp, wooden wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and tense; themes: personal confrontation, memory, romantic tension; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man and a woman are in close proximity in a dimly lit interior; the woman speaks while looking at the man. The transcript includes fragmented lines suggesting a personal conversation about a past event.

“I'm” 23:40 · “I'm not.” 23:41 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 23:41 (passage 23:34–23:55); US record: No renewal found

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