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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 99 · permalink

Private office

37:53–38:18 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:5937:59Frame at 38:1138:11Frame at 38:1738:17

Play from 37:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 195–197. 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 wearing cowboy hat, shirt, and light pants, medium build visible
  • unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks down stairs into a room. [frame:1]
  • The man moves quickly through the room, partially obscured. [frame:2]
  • The man crouches near furniture, looking alert. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, now.” 38:12 · “There.” 38:15
Seen
cowboy hat, stairs, wall clock, furniture (tables, chairs)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: concern, suspense, domestic interior; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static camera, period costume

A man in a cowboy hat moves through a dimly lit interior with stairs and furniture; dialogue suggests concern from another person. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“Oh, now, folks.” 37:55 · “Dad, what's the matter of you? Give us a doubt.” 38:06 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 37:59 (passage 37:53–38:18); US record: No renewal found

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