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Angel and the Badman · Beat 70 · permalink

Farm

34:18–34:49 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2334:23Frame at 34:3334:33Frame at 34:4134:41Frame at 34:4734:47

Play from 34:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 153–156. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, light scarf, light gloves visible
  • woman wearing dark dress with white collar, dark hair visible
  • woman with dark hair, light blouse, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Man stands beside wooden trough with horse head visible. [frame:1]
  • Woman in dark dress reaches toward seated woman near wooden crates. [frame:2]
  • Man and two women gather around wooden crates; man holds a small object. [frame:3]
  • Woman in dark dress holds a small object while standing near man and seated woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now get a bucket of water. Water, water. All I do is carry water.” 34:41 · “I” 34:46
Seen
wooden crates [frame:2], wooden trough [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], horse head [frame:1], small object [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, task-oriented; themes: farm labor, domestic chores, interpersonal interaction; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A man in a cowboy hat and a woman in a dark dress interact near wooden crates outdoors, while another woman sits nearby. The transcript includes lines about hay, water, and placing something in a box, suggesting chores or farm work.

“Well, you wanted hay, didn't you?” 34:23 · “16? I better put this littlest one in the box.” 34:29 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 34:23 (passage 34:18–34:49); US record: No renewal found

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