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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 19 · permalink

Forest

4:13–4:34 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:154:15Frame at 4:204:20Frame at 4:234:23Frame at 4:314:31

Play from 4:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 36–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and dark coat, visible from waist up visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and light-colored shirt visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and light shirt, seen from behind visible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a wooden structure and tree. [frame:1]
  • The man raises his hand near his face. [frame:2]
  • Riders on horseback approach on a dirt path. [frame:3]
  • Riders on horseback ride away down the path. [frame:4]
Also said
“*BANG*” 4:26 · “I'm going to go.” 4:27
Seen
wooden fence [frame:1], tree trunk [frame:1], horses [frame:3], dirt path [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, departure, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

A man in a hat and dark coat stands near a wooden structure as riders on horseback approach and then ride away down a dirt path. A gunshot is heard at 4:26, followed by the speaker saying they are going to leave.

“I” 4:17 · “I” 4:21 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 4:15 (passage 4:13–4:34); US record: No renewal found

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