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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 72 · permalink

Living room

23:23–25:01 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3123:31Frame at 23:4023:40Frame at 24:4424:44Frame at 24:5324:53

Play from 23:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 135–139. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man in dark suit, clean-shaven, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, smiling, medium build visible
  • Billy the Kid (named at t:23:38): man in wide-brimmed hat and bandana, rugged look visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, standing, holding gun visible
  • woman in patterned dress with ruffles, dark hair visible, audible
  • young boy in buttoned shirt, standing beside woman visible
  • man in dark shirt, seen from behind, entering room visible
Seen happening
  • Four men stand together in a room, one holding a gun. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a boy stand together, smiling. [frame:2]
  • The woman turns away from the camera. [frame:3]
  • Three men sit at a table with plates; the woman stands nearby. [frame:4]
Mentioned
  • The sheriff and men arrive; the group is told to hide weapons. [t:24:44]
Also said
“Billy the Kid and Jeff. This is my wife and my son, Joey.” 23:43 · “Here comes the sheriff and a lot of men. Wait a minute, Jeff. Gun smoke isn't the only way out of a tough spot.” 24:44
Seen
gun, dining table with checkered tablecloth, plates, wide-brimmed hat, bandana, patterned dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hospitable, shifting from warm welcome to imminent threat; themes: hospitality under threat, frontier justice, family as sanctuary; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged interior set

A group of men, including one identified as Billy the Kid, are welcomed into a home by a woman and her son. The scene shifts to tension as the sheriff and men arrive, prompting the group to hide weapons and prepare for confrontation.

“Hey, what's the big idea? You gonna take a pot shot at us? Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were some of Matt Brawley's men.” 23:26 · “Come on in, meet my wife.” 23:38 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 23:31 (passage 23:23–25:01); US record: No renewal found

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