Private office
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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 25:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 141–144. 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:2
- People
- man with beard, wearing plaid shirt, on floor visible
- man with slicked-back hair, wearing dark jacket, standing visible
- man in light shirt, standing behind p2 visible
- man in dark coat and hat, facing p5 visible
- man in light shirt, facing p4 visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a plaid shirt is on the floor, appearing distressed. [frame:1]
- Two men stand facing each other in a room with curtains. [frame:2]
- A man in a hat confronts another man in a light shirt. [frame:3]
- The man in the plaid shirt remains on the floor. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “If you don't quit agitating these, we ain't gonna be with us very long. None of us ask more than a square deal.” 25:15 · “What do you care about the law?” 25:24
- Seen
- curtains, plaid shirt, dark jacket, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, law versus outlaw, threats and warnings; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing
A man in a plaid shirt is shown on the floor in distress while two other men stand and speak in a curtained room. The transcript indicates a warning is being issued to farmers about not aiding Billy the Kid and his partners, and a threat is made about consequences if they continue agitating.
“Oh! And Idlell, Billy, the kid and his two partners are somewhere in the neighborhood.” 25:03 · “And I'd advise you farmers not to give them any help. Keep your advice till someone asks for it.” 25:07 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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