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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 188 · permalink

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58:48–58:54 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 58:5158:51

Play from 58:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 359–359. 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
People
  • man in dark cowboy attire, hat, holding a revolver, smiling visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, to the right of p1, holding a rope or lariat visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, partially visible on far left visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing behind p3 visible
  • Fuzzy (named at t:58:49): unseen person referred to as Fuzzy audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A group of men in cowboy attire stand together, one holding a revolver. [frame:1]
Seen
revolver [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], lariat or rope [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but casual; themes: cowboy camaraderie, confrontation, Western genre tropes; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged group composition

A group of men in cowboy attire are gathered; one speaks to someone named Fuzzy, asking him to help with others. No named characters are visually identifiable beyond the spoken reference to Fuzzy.

“Hey, Fuzzy, what are you doing, hiding?” 58:49 · “Come on over here, give me a hand with these hombres.” 58:51 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 58:51 (passage 58:48–58:54); US record: No renewal found

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