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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 187 · permalink

Field

58:46–58:48 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 58:4758:47

Play from 58:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 358–358. 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, adult, medium build, wearing wide-brimmed hat, vest, and neckerchief visible
  • man, adult, wearing hat and shirt, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man, adult, wearing hat and shirt, visible to right of p1 visible
  • man, adult, wearing hat and shirt, visible to left of p1 visible
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1], hats (multiple) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, confrontation, group dynamics; style notes: medium shot, low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing

A group of men in Western attire stands outdoors at night. One man in a wide-brimmed hat is centered and prominent among others in hats and shirts.

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 58:47 (passage 58:46–58:48); US record: No renewal found

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