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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 176 · permalink

Street

55:32–55:55 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4355:43

Play from 55:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 333–333. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, facing another man visible
  • man seen from behind, wearing a hat, standing close to p1 visible
  • several men on horseback, wearing hats, in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat speaks to another man while others on horseback stand behind them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come on in, I'll prove it to you.” 55:51 · “Come on, Lord.” 55:53
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], guns [t:55:48]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, betrayal, western standoff; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shot framing, backlighting creating silhouettes

A man in a hat speaks to another man while several others on horseback stand behind them in a dusty outdoor setting. The dialogue suggests a confrontation or revelation involving betrayal and a gun.

“Hello Matt Found out we've been a couple of suckers, but you can bet I'm not be in one now. I” 55:41 · “Oh, all right, hold the gun on this. It'll make you feel the better.” 55:48 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 55:43 (passage 55:32–55:55); US record: No renewal found

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