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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 144 · permalink

Street

47:13–47:43 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:1747:17Frame at 47:2647:26Frame at 47:3347:33Frame at 47:4147:41

Play from 47:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 274–282. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in suit, tie, and fedora, holding a gun visible
  • man in sailor-style outfit with dark hat and white neckerchief visible
  • man in vest and hat, standing on porch visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing on porch visible
Also said
“*Bang*” 47:31 · “I” 47:41
Seen
{'item': 'gun', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'brick wall', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'porch with chairs', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'trees', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, violence, sudden danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high contrast lighting

A man in a suit and hat holds a gun indoors, then is seen outdoors near trees; another man in a sailor-style outfit stands by a brick wall; two men stand on a porch. A gunshot is heard, followed by repeated exclamations of 'Oh, my God.'

“I'm going to go.” 47:21 · “Oh, my God.” 47:29 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 47:17 (passage 47:13–47:43); US record: No renewal found

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