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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 151 · permalink

Field

49:33–50:03 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4349:43Frame at 49:5849:58

Play from 49:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 290–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana, medium build visible
  • man in dark coat, white neckerchief, cowboy hat, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt, cowboy hat, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand facing each other in discussion, one gesturing. [frame:1]
  • A white horse stands tethered to a wooden fence with brush and hills in the background. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now it's best for me to go alone.” 49:41 · “I'm going to go.” 49:52
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], bandana [frame:1], white horse [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:2], lasso [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: loyalty, risk, solitude in action; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on characters, outdoor wide shot with natural lighting, period Western costume and props

A group of men in cowboy attire discuss a missed meeting and argue over whether to accompany one of them; a white horse stands tethered near a wooden fence in an outdoor setting. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text appears.

“Something's going wrong.” 49:33 · “Jeff said go for me to meet him at the usual place, but he wasn't there and he never did show up.” 49:35 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 49:43 (passage 49:33–50:03); US record: No renewal found

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