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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 97 · permalink

Private office

37:08–37:22 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0937:09Frame at 37:1037:10Frame at 37:1337:13Frame at 37:1937:19

Play from 37:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 186–189. 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 Western-style coat and hat, thrown to floor visible
  • man in light shirt, light pants, wide-brimmed hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing is thrown against a wall and falls to the floor. [frame:1]
  • A man in light clothing and a hat stands in a room with wooden furniture and hanging lamps. [frame:2]
  • The man in dark clothing is on the floor, looking up, hat askew. [frame:3]
  • The man in light clothing bends over the man on the floor in a room with hanging lamps. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden paneled wall, Western-style coat and hat, wide-brimmed hat, hanging lamps
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, conflict, partnership dissolution; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing character action, Western genre costume and set design

Two men in Western attire are shown in a physical altercation inside a dimly lit room with wooden paneling; one man is thrown to the floor while another stands nearby. A spoken line indicates a partnership is being dissolved due to betrayal.

“Where's the fire?” 37:09 · “We're dissolving partnership. I don't hurt up with no double-crossing murderers. I'll show you where to handle it.” 37:09 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 37:09 (passage 37:08–37:22); US record: No renewal found

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