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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

15:28–15:48 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:3215:32Frame at 15:4215:42

Play from 15:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 87–88. 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:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, mounted on a dark horse visible
  • man in light shirt and dark tie, standing visible, audible
  • man in suit and tie, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is visible outside a house. [frame:1]
  • A standing man confronts a seated man inside a room. [frame:2]
Also said
“You're gonna do right by me and the boys or you might as well fold up and move out.” 15:39 · “Because you ain't gonna make a dime.” 15:43
Seen
horse, hat, suit, tie, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: intimidation, negotiation under threat; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting

A man on horseback is shown outside a house, followed by a scene inside where one man stands over another seated man. A voice delivers a threat about financial consequences if demands are not met.

“Now listen.” 15:34 · “And don't fool yourself.” 15:37 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 15:32 (passage 15:28–15:48); US record: No renewal found

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