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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 142 · permalink

Shop

46:53–47:10 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; 1 name 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 47:0247:02

Play from 46:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 272–272. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and patterned shirt, visible from waist up visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands in a shop. [frame:1]
Also said
“I” 47:04 · “I” 47:06
Seen
shelves with jars and cans [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], patterned shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, unresolved; themes: confrontation, Western genre tropes; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man in a cowboy hat stands inside a dimly lit shop with shelves of goods behind him. No names are spoken, and no events beyond his presence are shown or described in the transcript.

“Let him have it.” 47:01 · “I” 47:01 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 47:02 (passage 46:53–47:10); US record: No renewal found

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