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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 136 · permalink

Town square

46:35–46:42 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3846:38

Play from 46:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 266–266. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Figures on horseback are stationary in an open area. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], buildings [frame:1], trees [frame:1], dusty ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, confrontation, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, silhouetted figures, wide shot, grainy film texture

A group of silhouetted figures on horseback stands in a dusty open area near buildings and trees. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast and visible film grain.

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 46:38 (passage 46:35–46:42); US record: No renewal found

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