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Angel and the Badman · Beat 93 · permalink

Porch

41:11–41:44 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; 4 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 41:2341:23Frame at 41:4041:40

Play from 41:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 40 · shots 209–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, dark coat, and gloves, holding a basket visible
  • man wearing suspenders and a light shirt, smiling visible
  • woman in dark dress, partially visible visible
  • Freddie Carson (named at t:41:25): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat holds a basket while standing with two others on a porch. [frame:1]
  • The man in suspenders smiles at the man with the basket. [frame:2]
Also said
“They remember this course.” 41:11 · “The Lord moves in mysterious manner at times using strange methods art and story.” 41:13
Seen
basket with pies [frame:2], hat [frame:2], suspenders [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly humorous; themes: hospitality, food as comfort, character interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A man in a hat and coat stands with a basket while another man in suspenders speaks to him; a woman is also present. The transcript includes dialogue about pies, coffee, and a character named Freddie Carson.

“Oh, it would be odd. I just get a gnawing hankering after good pies and truck like that. Oh, Freddie Carson. Yes, ma'am? I want you to have some of these. They're awful good with coffee in the morning.” 41:25 · “Makes me want to go home and shoot my Chinese crew. You just come back for more any time you like. There are always plenty. Thank you. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye, Frederick. Goodbye.” 41:34 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 41:23 (passage 41:11–41:44); US record: No renewal found

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