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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 88 · permalink

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34:48–35:05 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5634:56

Play from 34:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 47 · shots 173–173. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, light neckerchief, smiling broadly visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat laughs. [frame:1]
Also said
“now why don't you tell me the real reason” 34:55 · “All right, you win.” 35:00
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1], light neckerchief [frame:1], file cabinet or shelf in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ironic, with laughter contrasting with grave dialogue; themes: betrayal, confrontation, greed; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal background detail

A man in a cowboy hat laughs while seated indoors; dialogue suggests a confrontation about money and betrayal. No named characters appear, and the setting is not clearly identifiable beyond being an interior space.

“shot him from ambush without even giving him a chance.” 34:48 · “It's very sad.” 34:52 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 34:56 (passage 34:48–35:05); US record: No renewal found

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