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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 178 · permalink

Restaurant

56:30–56:39 Registered 1941

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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3456:34

Play from 56:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 100 · shots 335–335. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt and hat, standing visible
  • man wearing a dark vest and hat, standing visible
  • man wearing a light shirt and hat, leaning over table visible
  • man wearing dark suit and hat, seated at table visible
  • man wearing light shirt and hat, standing in background visible
Seen
checkered tablecloth [frame:1], coffee pot [frame:1], cups and plates [frame:1], hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, period costumes

A group of men in hats gather around a table with a checkered tablecloth in a dimly lit interior. One man speaks the line 'Tram loose' while another says 'That's a good idea.'

“That's a good idea.” 56:30 · “Tram loose.” 56:32 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 Billy the Kid Wanted (1941) at 56:34 (passage 56:30–56:39); US record: No renewal found

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