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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 149 · permalink

Town square

49:00–49:28 Registered 1941

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:1449:14

Play from 49:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 288–288. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing center, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing right, listening visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing left, leaning forward visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated in doorway, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in cowboy hats stand outside a wooden building, listening to a speaker. [frame:1]
Also said
“First thing you ought to do is...” 49:16
Seen
wooden building with doorway [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], rocks on ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and strategic; themes: conflict, organization, opportunism; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume and setting

A group of men in cowboy hats stand outside a wooden building while one speaks about gangs fighting and farmers organizing. The speaker advises against premature celebration and urges preparation for taking over after the gangs weaken.

“Those two gangs have locked horns, and I'll see to it if they keep fighting. Okay.” 49:00 · “When they whittle each other down, we can take over without much trouble. Wait a minute, don't start cheering before you've won your fight. Now, you farmers ought to get organized to take over when the time's right.” 49:04 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 Billy the Kid Wanted (1941) at 49:14 (passage 49:00–49:28); US record: No renewal found

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