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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 77 · permalink

Store

26:51–30:00 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2528:25

Play from 26:51 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 41 · shots 152–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
store (shop, exterior) evidence: t:27:12
Time of day
night evidence: t:27:15
People
  • man, visible in dark frame, wearing shirt and pants, possibly mid-adult visible, audible
  • unseen, audible voice, likely storekeeper audible
  • unseen, audible voice, possibly sheriff audible
  • unseen, audible voice, possibly accomplice or bystander audible
Mentioned
  • A person is left sitting with a sack over their head and a note pinned to their chest. [t:29:46]
Also said
“I guarantee that everything we took from the store will be paid for at a fair price.” 29:53 · “Well, I'll not have Billy the kid making a fool out of me.” 29:58
Seen
sack, note, door, light
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority vs. outlaw, deception, nighttime crime, small-town justice; style notes: low-key lighting, dark exterior shot, tight framing on figures, period costume visible

A man is confronted at night outside a store; he is told Matt Brawley sent him, but the storekeeper is suspicious. The scene escalates as others arrive, including a sheriff, and a note is left promising payment for stolen goods, referencing Billy the Kid.

“Matt Brawley sent me over. Come on down and open this store.” 27:12 · “It's a fine time of night to be coming around waking a man up. Come around in the morning.” 27:15 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 28:25 (passage 26:51–30:00); US record: No renewal found

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