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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 161 · permalink

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53:31–53:33 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 53:3253:32

Play from 53:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 313–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a dark hat and coat, standing in profile visible
  • wearing a lighter shirt and hat, standing facing p1 visible
Seen
smoke or haze [frame:1], wooden post or beam [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and obscured; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, heavy use of smoke for atmosphere, medium shot framing

Two figures stand in a smoky, dimly lit interior space; one wears a hat and coat, the other a lighter shirt and hat. The scene is obscured by haze and shadow, with no visible text or clear action.

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 53:32 (passage 53:31–53:33); US record: No renewal found

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