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Angel and the Badman · Beat 85 · permalink

Farm

38:37–39:15 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 38:4138:41Frame at 38:5638:56Frame at 39:0139:01Frame at 39:1239:12

Play from 38:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 186–191. 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
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, mid-adult, standing in doorway visible, audible
  • man in hat, suspenders, light shirt, holding a pole, mid-adult visible
  • woman in long dress, mid-adult, standing on porch with child visible
  • child in light dress, young visible
  • woman in dark dress, mid-adult, standing behind p3 visible
Seen happening
  • Water floods the yard near a house. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a doorway reacts with alarm to water in dishes. [frame:2]
  • A group stands on a porch as water flows nearby. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat gestures dramatically under a cloudy sky. [frame:4]
Also said
“Thomas!” 39:09
Seen
water [frame:1], house [frame:1], porch [frame:3], hat [frame:4], suspenders [frame:4], pole [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and dramatic; themes: disaster, domestic disruption, community response; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, natural outdoor lighting, expressive gestures

A woman reacts to water flooding dishes inside a house, while outside, a man in a hat and suspenders gestures dramatically under a cloudy sky. A group including a child and another woman stands on a porch as water flows nearby.

“Honor, all the dishes are full of water!” 38:56 · “Oh, my God!” 38:59 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 38:41 (passage 38:37–39:15); US record: No renewal found

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