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Angel and the Badman · Beat 71 · permalink

Farm

34:49–35:21 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5234:52Frame at 35:0535:05Frame at 35:1835:18

Play from 34:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 157–159. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, bandana, vest visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, patterned dress, light scarf visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, light-colored dress, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Man in cowboy hat speaks to women outdoors. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand near wooden structure; man gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Woman speaks with concerned expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“You're afraid. Of course. Did you get any water?” 35:11 · “We didn't pray for water. We prayed for Frederick Carson.” 35:16
Seen
cowboy hat, wooden structure, bandana, scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: water rights, community conflict, rural life; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting, period costume

A man in a cowboy hat speaks with two women outdoors near a wooden structure; dialogue reveals a dispute over water rights involving a man named Frederick Carson. The scene is set in a rural, possibly ranch-related location with visible wooden architecture.

“I see all these flumes and ditches. Frederick Carson turned the water off. Frederick Carson. I see.” 34:53 · “He's the man who bought the ranch up above from friends who couldn't make a go of it. We had built a community dam, but it was on his property.” 35:01 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 34:52 (passage 34:49–35:21); US record: No renewal found

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