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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

25:26–25:56 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:2725:27Frame at 25:2925:29Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:5325:53

Play from 25:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 145–149. 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, young adult, medium build, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, heavy build, wearing a dark shirt, has a gun belt visible
  • Matt Drawley (named at t:25:39): man, older, thin, bearded, wearing a plaid shirt and neckerchief, seated at a table visible
  • man, young adult, medium build, wearing a dark cowboy shirt with white neckerchief visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark shirt grabs another man by the head in a physical altercation. [frame:2]
  • Matt Drawley is seated at a table, looking distressed. [frame:3]
  • A man in a cowboy shirt looks on with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Mentioned
  • Matt Drawley is mentioned as having brought out a gang of gunfighters to bulldoze homesteaders. [t:25:39]
Also said
“I brought my wife, Jane, out here as his bride.” 25:45 · “You know, I think a first glass gun whipping would do Matt Brawley a lot of good. That's my sentiments precisely.” 25:56
Seen
gun belt, table, papers, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: land conflict, corruption, personal grievance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume

A man speaks about being wronged by Matt Drawley, who is depicted in a physical altercation and later seated at a table. Another man in a cowboy shirt is shown listening intently. The dialogue references land disputes and stolen earnings.

“You take your orders from Broly's Land Company. That'll be on that party, you...” 25:26 · “Matt Drawley brought out a gang of tough gunfighters to bulldoze the homesteaders.” 25:39 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 25:27 (passage 25:26–25:56); US record: No renewal found

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