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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 175 · permalink

Outdoor clearing

54:53–55:32 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:0055:00Frame at 55:2055:20

Play from 54:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 331–332. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor clearing (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing near horses visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, holding rope, standing near table visible
  • man in dark vest and shirt, gesturing with hands visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing near table visible
Also said
“I hope you enjoy yourself. Don't you worry.” 55:23 · “I will.” 55:26
Seen
horses, cowboy hats, rope, table with food and coffee pot
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, power shift, Western justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, period Western costumes and props

A group of men in cowboy hats are gathered outdoors near horses; one man holds a rope. Inside, men stand around a table with food and a coffee pot, one holding a rope while another gestures. Dialogue suggests a threat and a shift in control.

“Remember what I told you if this thing ain't on the level you'll be the first to get it all I did was deliver sauner's message” 54:59 · “Well, you had your fun. Now it's my turn.” 55:20 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 55:00 (passage 54:53–55:32); US record: No renewal found

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