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Angel and the Badman · Beat 269 · permalink

Log cabin

1:31:10–1:31:33 Released 1947; registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:161:31:16Frame at 1:31:271:31:27

Play from 1:31:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 542–543. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
log cabin (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and dark coat, standing near doorway visible
  • man wearing hat, seated on right visible
  • man wearing hat, seated on left visible
  • Hondo Jeffries (named at t:91:20): unseen speaker audible
  • Kurt Evans (named at t:91:20): unseen mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a doorway inside a log cabin. [frame:1]
  • Two men are seated inside the cabin while another stands near the doorway. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], log cabin [frame:1], window [frame:1], doorway [frame:2], chairs [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, revenge, frontier justice; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black and white, interior framing focused on character positioning

Two men are seen in a log cabin interior; one stands near a doorway while another sits. A horse and wagon are visible outside the cabin. The transcript mentions Hondo Jeffries and Kurt Evans in the context of a planned confrontation.

“The other two hadn't had me covered. I never let that Hondo Jeffries pistol whip me.” 91:20 · “You and me will take the starch out of the whole caboodle of them.” 91:30 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 1:31:16 (passage 1:31:10–1:31:33); US record: No renewal found

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