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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 16 · permalink

Forest

3:08–3:50 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:113:11Frame at 3:163:16Frame at 3:293:29Frame at 3:473:47

Play from 3:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 25–31. 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
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and plaid shirt, crouching behind a log visible
  • man in dark shirt and light pants, running or moving quickly visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, partially hidden behind a stone wall visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, holding a hand to his mouth, standing near a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat crouches behind a log while another man runs past him. [frame:1]
  • Two men are seen crouching behind a low stone wall or log, one aiming a gun. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat stands near a horse, holding his hand to his mouth as if in shock or pain. [frame:3]
  • A man in dark clothing peeks from behind a stone wall and a tree, holding a gun. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, this bird's getting harder all the time.” 3:25 · “See if he can sneak around behind him.” 3:38
Seen
horse [frame:1], gun [frame:2], stone wall [frame:4], log [frame:2], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: confrontation, survival, gunfight; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting, medium and close shots, handheld or static camera capturing action

Two men are in a wooded outdoor area with horses; one is crouched behind cover while another moves stealthily. Gunshots are heard and a man is seen reacting to being hit, suggesting a confrontation is underway.

“Oh, that's a buck. That's a buck. Oh, my God.” 3:10 · “for everything. Just can't.” 3:22 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 3:11 (passage 3:08–3:50); US record: No renewal found

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