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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 110 · permalink

Rocky outdoor area with log cabin

41:09–41:37 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:1041:10Frame at 41:2441:24

Play from 41:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 217–218. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky outdoor area with log cabin (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark coat, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light-colored cowboy hat and light coat, medium build visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat, standing to right of p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in cowboy hats gather near a log cabin. [frame:2]
Also said
“A little while ago, you were hot after my scalp.” 41:10 · “You're riding with the law now. That makes a difference.” 41:10
Seen
log cabin [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:2], rocks and sparse vegetation [frame:1], dirt path [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and persuasive; themes: confrontation, alliance formation, law versus outlaw; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of group, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A group of men in cowboy hats stands outdoors near a log cabin in a rocky area. One man speaks about approaching outlaws cautiously and persuading a former adversary to join him.

“Doesn't look like they're expecting company. They'll soon find out different.” 41:10 · “We'll get as close as we can before we open up and let them have it.” 41:10 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 41:10 (passage 41:09–41:37); US record: No renewal found

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