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Angel and the Badman · Beat 81 · permalink

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37:21–37:47 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:2737:27Frame at 37:3637:36Frame at 37:4337:43

Play from 37:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 176–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Quirt Evans (named at t:37:31): man wearing dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, light neckerchief, middle-aged, stern expression visible, audible
  • man wearing light-colored cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, younger, listening visible, audible
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, seen from side/back, partially visible visible
Also said
“There's a QE stamp on his saddle.” 37:39 · “Well, take the top punch out of that head gate, you stupid idiot.” 37:43
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], neck scarves [frame:1], saddle (mentioned) [t:37:39], head gate (mentioned) [t:37:43]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity verification, frontier justice, suspicion; style notes: medium close-ups, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume

Three men in cowboy hats converse outdoors; one is identified by dialogue as Quirt Evans. A saddle with a 'QE' stamp is mentioned as proof of identity.

“Who might you be when you're at home?” 37:22 · “Right up here and say to Quirt Evans,” 37:31 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 37:27 (passage 37:21–37:47); US record: No renewal found

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