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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 76 · permalink

Private office

25:56–26:51 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; 6 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 26:0326:03Frame at 26:3026:30

Play from 25:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 41 · shots 150–151. 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 in dark suit and tie, standing visible
  • man in light shirt, standing visible
  • woman in patterned dress, back to camera visible
  • man with beard, wearing jacket, standing visible
  • man in hat, partially visible visible
  • Matt Brawley (named at t:25:56): unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • Five people are visible standing in a room with patterned wallpaper. [frame:1]
  • A dark, blurry close-up shows a hand or arm moving. [frame:2]
Also said
“We'll soon starve the fight out of all of us.” 26:08 · “I'm going to go.” 26:18
Seen
patterned wallpaper [frame:1], table or desk edge [frame:1], hand or arm (indistinct) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, economic hardship, community resistance; style notes: static medium shot with studio lighting; abrupt cut to dark close-up suggests action or transition

A group of people stands in a room discussing Matt Brawley's actions and the resulting hardship on farmers; one person decides to leave. A second frame shows a dark, indistinct close-up of a hand or arm, suggesting a physical action or transition.

“You know, I think a first glass gun whipping would do Matt Brawley a lot of good. That's my sentiments precisely.” 25:56 · “I tried to organize all the farmers to band together and make Brawley be fair, but...” 26:02 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 26:03 (passage 25:56–26:51); US record: No renewal found

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