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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 124 · permalink

Road

43:35–44:51 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:3843:38Frame at 43:4543:45Frame at 44:0444:04Frame at 44:3644:36

Play from 43:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 249–252. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in plaid shirt, vest, wide-brimmed hat, beard visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, on horse visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, dark hat, on horse visible, audible
  • group of riders on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • A group of riders on horseback moves along a road. [frame:2]
  • Two men on horseback point and speak to each other. [frame:3]
  • Two men stand near a building and bushes, talking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now look, here's the idea. Matt and his men are going to be a little disorganized and they won't be expecting us.” 44:37 · “Boy, loud up! We're riding!” 44:48
Seen
horse [frame:2], hat [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], vest [frame:1], building [frame:4], bushes [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and vengeful; themes: betrayal, revenge, planning ambush; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, outdoor natural lighting, Western costume and setting

A man in a plaid shirt and hat stands outdoors while others ride horses; two men on horseback discuss a plan to ambush Matt's men. The dialogue reveals suspicion of a traitor and intent to retaliate against Billy the Kid.

“They knew we were coming. Now listen, Brawley, you got someone in your outfit that talks too much.” 44:03 · “You know, if that Billy the Kid thinks he's seen me for the last time, he's crazy.” 44:26 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 43:38 (passage 43:35–44:51); US record: No renewal found

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