Public Reel

Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 14 · permalink

Forest

2:47–2:49 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:482:48

Play from 2:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 17–17. 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
  • rider on horseback, wearing dark clothing, partially obscured by trees visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing dark clothing, behind p1 visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing dark clothing, further back in line visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move through a forested path. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], trees [frame:1], film scratches [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: pursuit, wilderness travel; style notes: grainy black and white, medium shot, natural lighting, vertical film damage

A group of riders on horseback moves through a wooded area. The scene is shot in black and white with visible film grain and vertical scratches.

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 2:48 (passage 2:47–2:49); US record: No renewal found

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