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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 42 · permalink

House

10:45–15:28 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 13:0413:04Frame at 15:2615:26

Play from 10:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 23 · shots 85–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
house (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man on horseback, wearing hat and coat, riding dark horse visible
  • woman, speaking of illness and her son, likely seated audible
  • man claiming to be a good cook, speaks of taking over cooking audible
  • son, mentioned as trying to cook, not visible mentioned
  • Jack Saunders (named at t:14:55): man named Jack Saunders, arrives on horseback, speaks of 'soft picking' audible, visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback arrives at a wooden house with a porch. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, a lot of us folks were fooled by this thing. It's a downright swindle.” 13:20 · “Jack Saunders.” 14:55
Seen
horse, wooden house with porch, saddle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: land rights, family struggle, outsider threat; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, static camera

A man on horseback arrives at a wooden house with a porch; inside, a woman speaks of illness and her son cooking, while another man claims to be a good cook and takes over. Later, a confrontation occurs over land and water rights with a company representative, followed by the arrival of a man named Jack Saunders who threatens the household.

“Well, my dad went away and my mom” 10:47 · “I tried to get up and cook some supper, but I got so dizzy I had to lie down again.” 11:06 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 13:04 (passage 10:45–15:28); US record: No renewal found

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