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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 98 · permalink

Shop

37:22–37:53 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:2437:24Frame at 37:3337:33Frame at 37:4237:42Frame at 37:4837:48

Play from 37:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 190–194. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, visible in close-up visible
  • man in light shirt and dark tie, standing with two others visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, standing with p2 and p4 visible
  • man in light shirt, standing with p2 and p3 visible
  • Jeff (named at t:37:23): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat is visible in close-up. [frame:1]
  • A counter and shelves with jars are visible. [frame:2]
  • Three men in shirts and hats stand together. [frame:3]
  • A stove and hanging items are visible in a room. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 37:28 · “I'm going to go.” 37:41
Seen
hat [frame:1, frame:3], counter [frame:2], shelves with jars [frame:2], stove [frame:4], hanging items [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, confrontation, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man named Jeff is addressed and says he is leaving; three men in shirts and hats stand together in a room with shelves and a counter. The setting appears to be an interior shop or saloon with visible merchandise and a stove.

“Hey, wait a minute. Jeff, what's the matter with you?” 37:23 · “Jeff.” 37:27 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 37:24 (passage 37:22–37:53); US record: No renewal found

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