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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 172 · permalink

Field

54:21–54:25 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:2254:22Frame at 54:2454:24

Play from 54:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 326–327. 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 wearing white shirt and dark pants, seen from behind visible
  • man wearing hat, falling backward through water or mud visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt kicks up dust while moving forward. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat falls backward through water or mud. [frame:2]
Seen
hat [frame:2], dust [frame:1], water or mud [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, physical struggle; style notes: grainy black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting emphasizing motion and impact

A man in a white shirt and dark pants is seen from behind, kicking up dust in an outdoor setting. Another man in a hat is shown falling backward through water or mud, suggesting a physical altercation.

“Oh” 54:22 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 54:22 (passage 54:21–54:25); US record: No renewal found

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