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Angel and the Badman · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

25:28–32:34 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4826:48Frame at 28:2328:23Frame at 30:3530:35Frame at 32:3032:30

Play from 25:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 138–142. 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:4
People
  • Quirt Evans (named at t:26:08): man wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, visible in frame:4 visible, audible
  • Laredo (named at t:26:28): man in dark clothing, seen from behind in frame:2, speaking in transcript audible, mentioned
  • woman in light-colored dress with dark hair, visible in frame:3 and frame:4 visible, audible
  • man in dark clothing, partially visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • Quirt Evans stands in a doorway holding a gun. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'll see you one of these days.” 28:45 · “Would you ride past the schoolhouse with me?” 31:46
Seen
gun [frame:4], cowboy hat [frame:4], brick wall [frame:4], doorway [frame:4], lamp [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation, power dynamics, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, dramatic lighting with strong shadows, period Western costume

A man named Quirt Evans enters a room, negotiates over land with another man, and later prepares to leave. A woman is present and interacts with both men, and there is a moment where Evans is asked to ride past a schoolhouse.

“Howdy, Quirt.” 26:08 · “5,000 in gold there.” 27:32 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 26:48 (passage 25:28–32:34); US record: No renewal found

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