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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 2 · permalink

Private office

1:08–1:39 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:231:23

Play from 1:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. 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 wearing cowboy hat, vest, and patterned shirt, standing visible
  • person seated, partially visible, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a seated person in a dim room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Sheriff don't know where we are and I can at least be at ease for a while.” 1:35
Seen
cowboy hat, vest, patterned shirt, wooden table or desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and cautious; themes: hiding, law enforcement evasion, dialogue-driven tension; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, medium shot framing, period Western costume

A man in Western attire stands inside a dimly lit room while another person sits nearby; dialogue suggests they are hiding from a sheriff and plan to speak with Billy the Kid. The scene is set indoors with minimal lighting and period-appropriate costumes.

“I don't know why I heard with you and Billy the Kid. All that's on the go, eat every meal with one foot in the air ready to jump. Why don't you tell your troubles to Billy? He'll be alone directly. I sure will.” 1:21 · “Stay right here and rest up” 1:33 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 1:23 (passage 1:08–1:39); US record: No renewal found

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