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Angel and the Badman · Beat 80 · permalink

Sidewalk

36:55–37:21 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:5936:59Frame at 37:1237:12

Play from 36:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 174–175. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark vest, and belt; mounted on horse visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and bandana, standing, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback speaks to a man standing beside him. [frame:1]
  • The two men continue their conversation, with the standing man gesturing. [frame:2]
Also said
“Yeah, what's up to you? Take out the top two planks.” 37:11 · “Who says so? I do.” 37:19
Seen
horse, cowboy hats, belt with buckle, bandana
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, conflict, Western frontier; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, Western costume and setting

Two men in cowboy hats converse near a horse; one is mounted while the other stands beside him. Dialogue suggests a tense exchange about moving and removing planks, with one man asserting authority over water depth.

“Don't get down.” 37:00 · “Are you a thief? I said get moving, tramp.” 37:07 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 36:59 (passage 36:55–37:21); US record: No renewal found

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