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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 147 · permalink

Field

48:09–48:49 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:1248:12Frame at 48:3248:32

Play from 48:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 285–286. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark hat, on horseback visible, audible
  • Matt (named at t:48:28): man in light shirt and wide-brimmed hat, on horseback visible, audible
  • man in plaid shirt, seated on horse, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Men on horseback are gathered in a dusty, rocky area. [frame:1]
  • Men on horseback are talking to each other. [frame:2]
Also said
“We should have known that.” 48:32 · “Well, I'll get him sometime when he ain't expecting me.” 48:37
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:2], dust [frame:1], rocks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: ambush, revenge, regret; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of characters on horseback, natural outdoor lighting, dusty atmosphere

A group of men on horseback are in a rocky, dusty outdoor setting, discussing being ambushed. They speculate that an unseen person named Matt anticipated their return and set a trap.

“It looks like he helped get you this time” 48:14 · “Matt probably figured you'd come back right away and was waiting for you.” 48:28 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 48:12 (passage 48:09–48:49); US record: No renewal found

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