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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 179 · permalink

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56:39–57:01 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 56:4556:45Frame at 56:5656:56

Play from 56:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 336–337. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat, dark jacket with light trim, and a light neckerchief; appears young adult, medium build visible
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt, dark tie, and dark vest; mustache, medium build visible
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and shirt; partially visible behind p2 visible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark jacket; standing to the right of p2 visible
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt; visible in background behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat is visible in a close-up, looking to his right. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt and tie gestures with his right hand while speaking to a group. [frame:2]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2], dark jacket with light trim [frame:1], light neckerchief [frame:1], white shirt and dark tie [frame:2], dark vest [frame:2], metal cup or container on table [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, gambling, Western genre; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium shot, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces, static camera

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to a group of men in a dimly lit interior; another man in a white shirt and tie gestures while addressing the group. The transcript indicates a challenge or wager is being proposed.

“All right, boys, nothing's barred.” 56:50 · “The winner goes free and the loser pays for both.” 56:58 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 56:45 (passage 56:39–57:01); US record: No renewal found

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