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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 158 · permalink

Private office

52:49–53:27 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5352:53Frame at 53:0753:07Frame at 53:1753:17Frame at 53:2353:23

Play from 52:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 305–310. 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 cowboy hat and shirt, seated at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing near stove visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated in background visible
Seen happening
  • Men are seated at a table in a wooden room. [frame:1]
  • Smoke begins to fill the room from a stove. [frame:3]
  • A man reacts to the smoke while others remain seated. [frame:4]
Seen
checkered tablecloth [frame:1], stove [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden walls [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: accidental danger, group reaction to crisis; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black and white, smoke used for dramatic effect

A group of men sit at a table in a wooden room when smoke begins to fill the space; one man reacts to the smoke near a stove. The transcript includes a cough and dialogue about wood in the stove and leaving due to a chimney issue.

“Hey, what did you put in that stove? Wood!” 53:06 · “Let's get out of here. There must be something wrong with the chimney.” 53:10 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 52:53 (passage 52:49–53:27); US record: No renewal found

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