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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 100 · permalink

Shop

38:18–38:49 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; 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.

Frame at 38:2038:20Frame at 38:2538:25Frame at 38:3938:39Frame at 38:4738:47

Play from 38:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 198–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in cowboy hat and patterned shirt, standing over a fallen figure visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, at counter visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing beside p4 visible
  • Jack Saunders (named at t:38:22): man in suit and cowboy hat, speaking outside visible, audible
  • fallen figure on floor, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands over a fallen figure on the floor. [frame:1]
  • Two men face each other at a counter inside a shop. [frame:2]
  • A man is thrown backward into shelves during a fight. [frame:3]
  • Two men stand outside a brick building, one speaking to the other. [frame:4]
Also said
“all right hey i got a good man to take a poke at you and i think i will oh yeah” 38:27 · “Well, how's it look?” 38:46
Seen
counter, shelves with jars, brick wall, cowboy hats, suit and vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, outlaw culture, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a cowboy hat stands over a fallen figure inside a shop, then confronts another man at a counter before a fight breaks out. Two men are later seen outside a brick building, one speaking to the other.

“Anytime you want some more of it, just look me up.” 38:18 · “Are you Jack Saunders? Yeah, why? Get out of town as quick as you can. I'll meet you on the road.” 38:22 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 38:20 (passage 38:18–38:49); US record: No renewal found

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