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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 79 · permalink

Private office

30:34–32:03 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 31:0731:07Frame at 31:5231:52

Play from 30:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 155–156. 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:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark tie, standing, wearing a hat visible
  • man in suit and hat, seated, looking up visible
  • older man with long hair, wearing a patterned shirt and neckerchief visible
  • boy, seated at table, facing p3 visible
Also said
“Billy the Kid.” 31:07 · “Bucky, will you make up your mind with one?” 31:55
Seen
hat, suit, chair, table, patterned shirt, neckerchief
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation, threat, legendary outlaw; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costumes

Two men are in a dimly lit room; one seated, one standing, discussing a job involving Billy the Kid. A third man, older and in a patterned shirt, speaks to a boy at a table, mentioning Indians and weapons.

“You know, I'm surprised that most of this bunch hasn't been hung by now.” 30:37 · “So you and your boys figured to move in on me whether I like it or not, huh? That's right.” 30:50 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 31:07 (passage 30:34–32:03); US record: No renewal found

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