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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 116 · permalink

Field

41:52–42:21 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:5341:53Frame at 42:0442:04Frame at 42:1142:11Frame at 42:2042:20

Play from 41:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 225–236. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • person visible at a window, partially obscured, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • man running outdoors, wearing dark jacket and light pants, holding a hat over his head visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, patterned shirt, dark pants, standing beside a horse visible
  • man wearing dark hat and dark shirt, standing near a log wall visible
  • man wearing light shirt, holding a pistol, partially visible behind p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible at a window in a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • A man runs outdoors while holding a hat over his head. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands beside a horse. [frame:3]
  • Two men stand near a log wall, one aiming a pistol. [frame:4]
Also said
“*Bang*” 42:12 · “I'm” 42:18
Seen
wooden building with window, hat, cowboy hat, horse, log wall, pistol
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, suspense; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period Western costume

A person is seen at a window in a wooden building, then a man runs outdoors with a hat over his head, followed by a man in a cowboy hat standing beside a horse, and finally two men near a log wall, one aiming a pistol. The transcript includes sounds of knocking, thudding, and a bang, along with fragmented speech.

“Oh.” 41:53 · “*knock*” 41:54 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 41:53 (passage 41:52–42:21); US record: No renewal found

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