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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 17 · permalink

Forest

3:50–4:07 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 3:553:55Frame at 4:044:04

Play from 3:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 11 · shots 32–33. 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 hat, dark shirt, light pants, standing visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated, partially obscured visible
  • man wearing a hat, running away from camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands over a seated man near horses. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat runs away from a dark background. [frame:2]
Also said
“*thud*” 4:01 · “*BANG*” 4:03
Seen
horses [frame:1], hat [frame:1], gun [t:4:03]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, flight, violence; style notes: grainy black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a hat and light pants stands over a seated man near horses; another man in a hat runs away from a dark background. A gunshot is heard at 4:03.

“Get busy, we're not stopping for lunch. Well, no fool sheriff's gonna stop me from having my lunch.” 3:50 · “- Here.” 3:56 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 3:55 (passage 3:50–4:07); US record: No renewal found

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