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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 70 · permalink

Living room

23:07–23:21 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1123:11Frame at 23:1723:17

Play from 23:07 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 40 · shots 132–133. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a collared shirt, seated visible
  • boy, wearing a collared shirt, seated visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a full skirt dress, seated visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a collared shirt, standing, holding a rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit with a boy in a room. [frame:1]
  • A man stands holding a rifle near a wall. [frame:2]
Also said
“All right, who's there?” 23:17 · “No matter what.” 23:19
Seen
rifle, curtains, plant, shelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: domestic tension, intrusion, armed defense; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man and a woman sit with a boy in a room with curtains and a plant; a man holding a rifle stands near a wall with a shelf. A knock is heard and someone asks who is there.

“The little red rat...” 23:07 · “*knock knock*” 23:10 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 23:11 (passage 23:07–23:21); US record: No renewal found

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