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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

34:21–34:48 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; 2 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 34:2434:24Frame at 34:3334:33Frame at 34:4234:42

Play from 34:21 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 47 · shots 170–172. 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, frame:3
People
  • man in suit and cowboy hat, medium build, mustache, seated visible, audible
  • man in dark cowboy shirt and hat, younger, clean-shaven, seated visible, audible
Also said
“Yeah, I always like to know just why I kill a man.” 34:39 · “I murdered my best friend.” 34:46
Seen
cowboy hat, suit jacket, wooden desk, file cabinet, window with curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: vengeance, moral justification, past trauma; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats sit and talk in a dimly lit room; one mentions Jack Saunders and the act of killing. One man states he murdered his best friend.

“They tell me you're about the fastest man alive with a gun.” 34:21 · “I'd pay a lot to see Jack Saunders planted in Boothill.” 34:32 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 34:24 (passage 34:21–34:48); US record: No renewal found

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