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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 177 · permalink

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55:55–56:30 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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:1256:12

Play from 55:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 334–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman seated at table, wearing dark clothing, head tilted back visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and suit, facing woman visible
  • man seated at table, wearing hat and light shirt visible
  • man standing behind table, wearing hat and light shirt visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and dark shirt visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and light shirt visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and dark shirt visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seated at a table surrounded by men in hats. [frame:1]
Also said
“But it looks like I owe you a lot. And I always pay my debt.” 56:08 · “Why not let them find it out?” 56:28
Seen
checkered tablecloth, coffee pot, cups and plates, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: debt, conflict, group dynamics; style notes: medium group shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A group of men in hats surrounds a seated woman at a table with a checkered cloth; dialogue suggests tension and a debt owed. No names are spoken that can be attached to visible individuals.

“Well Matt.” 56:00 · “Here's the pair that's been promoting all the trouble between us.” 56:01 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 56:12 (passage 55:55–56:30); US record: No renewal found

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