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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 125 · permalink

Forest

44:51–44:54 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 44:5244:52

Play from 44:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 253–253. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lying on ground, wearing wide-brimmed hat, light-colored shirt, dark pants visible
  • standing, dark clothing, partially silhouetted, holding object resembling rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies motionless on the ground while another stands over them. [frame:1]
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], rifle or long gun [frame:1], trees and underbrush [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, still; themes: confrontation, outdoor peril; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shot, silhouetted figure creates dramatic framing

A person lies on the ground outdoors near trees while another figure stands nearby. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 44:52 (passage 44:51–44:54); US record: No renewal found

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