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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 105 · permalink

Road

39:28–39:59 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3339:33Frame at 39:4939:49

Play from 39:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 208–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, seated on horseback visible, audible
  • man wearing dark hat and light shirt, standing beside horse, facing p1 visible, audible
  • child on horseback, distant, centered in frame:1 visible
  • man on horseback, partially visible left side frame:1 visible
  • man on horseback, partially visible right side frame:1 visible
Seen happening
  • A child on horseback approaches a group of mounted men on a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • Two men on horseback face each other in conversation, with others nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“Say, you don't owe me anything. Why are you telling me all this? Because Billy double-crossed me and tried to hog it all. I spoiled his little game.” 39:44 · “Well, that's the biggest mistake he ever made in his life.” 39:56
Seen
horses [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:2], ropes (lariats) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, revenge, Western frontier justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

Two men on horseback converse in an outdoor setting while others are present; one man explains he was double-crossed by Billy and spoiled his plan. The transcript reveals a betrayal involving Matt Brawley and Billy the Kid.

“Well, what's it all about Matt Brawley and Billy the Kid framed a trap for you and” 39:37 · “You and your boys were to be wiped out.” 39:41 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 39:33 (passage 39:28–39:59); US record: No renewal found

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