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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 185 · permalink

Field

58:41–58:45 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:4358:43

Play from 58:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 356–356. 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 cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, and trousers; medium build visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt; visible from chest up visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt; partially obscured visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt; standing to the right visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt; visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures with his right hand while standing among a group. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], period Western clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or explanatory; themes: Western genre, group confrontation, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, low-key lighting with strong shadows, group framing

A group of men in cowboy hats and period Western clothing stand outdoors at night. One man gestures while speaking, as indicated by the transcript line at 58:42.

“See, that's the way I do it.” 58:42 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 58:43 (passage 58:41–58:45); US record: No renewal found

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