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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 1 · permalink

Beat 1

0:00–1:08 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:340:34

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
credit text
On screen
Original Screen Play by FRED MYTON Director of Photography JACK GREENHALGH Sound Engineer HANS UTTEREN Music by JOHNNY LANGE and LEO PORTER Settings by VIN TAYLOR Film Editor HOLBROOK N. TODD Assistant Director MIVELTE DE LAY Production Manager BERT STERNBACH
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static frame with white text on black background, typical of opening credits; no lighting or framing choices beyond standard typography.

The beat shows a single frame from the film's credits at 34 seconds, listing production roles and names. The transcript contains a single spoken line at 1:00 that is not visually supported by the frame.

“Oh, yeah.” 1:00 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 0:34 (passage 0:00–1:08); US record: No renewal found

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