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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 108 · permalink

Road

40:29–41:06 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:4840:48

Play from 40:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 58 · shots 215–215. 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
  • rider on horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on white horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on dark horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Riders gallop on horseback along a dirt road. [frame:1]
Also said
“We'll give him a surprise visit he'll never forget.” 40:32 · “I'll be right back.” 40:35
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], saddles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: pursuit, confrontation, western; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, dynamic motion, outdoor lighting

A group of riders on horseback gallops along a dirt road. Dialogue suggests they are planning a surprise visit.

“Surprise, huh?” 40:30 · “You said it.” 40:31 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 40:48 (passage 40:29–41:06); US record: No renewal found

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