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Angel and the Badman · Beat 6 · permalink

Desert

1:52–2:04 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:541:54Frame at 1:591:59Frame at 2:032:03

Play from 1:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 8–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • silhouetted figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat, seated visible
  • silhouetted figure with dark hair, seated beside p1 visible
  • figure on horseback, distant visible
Seen happening
  • Two silhouetted figures sit side by side on a porch or ledge. [frame:1]
  • A lone rider on horseback moves across a flat, arid landscape. [frame:2]
  • A horse stumbles and falls, kicking up dust. [frame:3]
Seen
hat [frame:1], horse [frame:2, frame:3], dust [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and expansive; themes: isolation, frontier setting, sudden violence; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, wide shots emphasizing landscape scale, silhouetted figures against bright sky

Two figures sit on a porch overlooking a desert landscape; a separate shot shows a rider on horseback moving across the terrain, followed by a close-up of a horse falling in dust. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this segment.

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 1:54 (passage 1:52–2:04); US record: No renewal found

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