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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 106 · permalink

Private office

39:59–40:13 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:0140:01Frame at 40:0440:04Frame at 40:0940:09

Play from 39:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 57 · shots 210–212. 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 coat and hat, standing, facing seated man visible
  • man in plaid shirt and wide-brimmed hat, standing, facing seated man visible
  • man in light-colored hat and jacket, seated with back to camera visible
Also said
“Jumped me before I had a chance to do anything.” 40:00 · “Because he made a deal with Jack Sanders to put you out of the way. Take over the works!” 40:08
Seen
filing cabinet [frame:1], desk [frame:1], hat (on seated man) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: betrayal, confrontation, power struggle; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, typical of 1940s Western interiors

Three men are in a room; one seated man is confronted by two standing men. Dialogue reveals a betrayal involving a partner and Jack Sanders.

“In your hands, why'd you let him go?” 40:00 · “Because that double-crossing partner of mine took me by surprise.” 40:00 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 40:01 (passage 39:59–40:13); US record: No renewal found

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