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Angel and the Badman · Beat 84 · permalink

Forest

38:20–38:37 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2538:25Frame at 38:3338:33

Play from 38:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 184–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Chuck (named at t:38:25): man wearing wide-brimmed hat, dark vest, light shirt, seated on horse visible, audible
  • Mr. Evans (named at t:38:32): man wearing dark hat and coat, seated on horse, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback face each other and talk. [frame:1]
  • One man gestures while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], dark coats [frame:2], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and cooperative; themes: rural labor, mutual aid, Western frontier; style notes: medium two-shot, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film grain, period Western costume

Two men on horseback converse outdoors; one suggests removing more planks to manage excess water, and the other offers future assistance. The setting appears to be a wooded outdoor area with trees and natural light.

“Maybe we better take out a couple more of them planks, Chuck. I've got ten times as much water as I need.” 38:25 · “Well, if you ever need any more, Mr. Evans, all you gotta do is say so. I figured that.” 38:32 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 38:25 (passage 38:20–38:37); US record: No renewal found

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