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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

32:03–32:55 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; 6 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 32:1332:13Frame at 32:3832:38

Play from 32:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 157–158. 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 dark shirt and tie, seated, looking up visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, standing, older visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing visible
  • man in uniform, standing visible
  • boy, seated, looking up visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat and coat visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand around a seated man in a room, discussing a plan. [frame:1]
  • A man rides a horse down a town street. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, he'll try to outsmart me on something, but I'll take my chances on that.” 32:25 · “I'm going to go.” 32:33
Seen
table with map, wooden wall paneling, horse, buildings lining street
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: confrontation, deception, individual resolve; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes and set design

A group of men in a room discuss a plan involving a sheriff, while a separate shot shows a man on horseback riding through a town street. One man decides to go alone to speak with someone, believing it is not a trap.

“Seemed pretty sure that some of us could get the message to him. Yeah trying to make things easy for the half-backed sheriff.” 32:10 · “- You're a loved one. - Why, it's a trap!” 32:21 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 32:13 (passage 32:03–32:55); US record: No renewal found

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