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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

2:13–2:45 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:182:18Frame at 2:252:25Frame at 2:292:29Frame at 2:392:39

Play from 2:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 12–15. 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 with beard, wearing cowboy hat and patterned shirt visible
  • man with short hair, wearing dark shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A horse runs across a dusty open area. [frame:2]
  • Several riders on horseback move across the scene. [frame:3]
  • The two men remain seated at the table. [frame:4]
Also said
“I've had in three months.” 2:22
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], patterned tablecloth [frame:1], horse [frame:2], horses with riders [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, confinement, dialogue-driven; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera

Two men sit at a table in a dim interior, one wearing a cowboy hat; the scene cuts to a horse running and then to riders on horseback. A man speaks about a sheriff and digestion.

“Sheriff in the States looking for him. He's right.” 2:15 · “Besides, it's ruining my digestion.” 2:18 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 2:18 (passage 2:13–2:45); US record: No renewal found

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