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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 45 · permalink

Private office

16:07–16:49 Registered 1941

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:2716:27Frame at 16:4816:48

Play from 16:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 90–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, plaid shirt, and bandana; medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a suit jacket and bow tie; smiling, appears middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat confronts another man seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The seated man smirks and raises his hand as if to challenge or signal. [frame:2]
Also said
“Two can play that game.” 16:40 · “Come on, don't fight. Put him up, put him up, come on.” 16:43
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], bandana [frame:1], suit jacket [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], desk [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, threat, intervention; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-ups, high contrast black-and-white cinematography

Two men confront each other in a dim interior; one threatens the other with violence over a dispute involving Paradise Valley. The second man responds with a smirk and a challenge, prompting others to intervene and separate them.

“You're gonna give some friends of mine a square deal or else Paradise Valley's gonna look like its geography's been dislocated.” 16:24 · “Well, I don't know who you are or what you want. Get away from me and leave me alone. Hey, you, I'm a-talking.” 16:29 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 16:27 (passage 16:07–16:49); US record: No renewal found

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