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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 121 · permalink

Field

42:54–43:13 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 42:5942:59Frame at 43:0543:05Frame at 43:1043:10

Play from 42:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 244–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark coat, standing visible
  • man in light cowboy hat, plaid shirt, vest, seated or crouching visible
  • Matt Brawley (named at t:42:54): man in dark cowboy hat, light shirt, running visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat runs near a log cabin. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 43:02 · “I'm going to go.” 43:10
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], log cabin [frame:3], small building [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, decision, Western setting; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor wide shots and medium close-ups, natural lighting

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in a close-up, followed by a distant shot of a small building in a hilly, wooded area, and then a man in a cowboy hat running near a log cabin. The transcript indicates a character named Matt Brawley is mentioned and someone decides to leave.

“It looks like Matt Brawley's had enough.” 42:54 · “I better join them before they miss me. What am I supposed to do? Wait here until you hear from Jeff.” 42:58 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 42:59 (passage 42:54–43:13); US record: No renewal found

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