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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 29 · permalink

Field

5:45–6:19 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; 3 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 5:525:52Frame at 6:096:09

Play from 5:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 55–56. 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 standing, wearing a hat and long-sleeved shirt, holding a rifle, appears mid-adult visible
  • man sitting, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, holding a bandaged leg, appears mid-adult visible, audible
  • man crouching, wearing a dark coat and tie, appears mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • Three men and a horse are in a rocky outdoor area with camping gear. [frame:1]
  • The men are gathered around a tripod structure, one tending to his leg. [frame:2]
Also said
“If I feel like complaining, I'll complain.” 6:01 · “Oh, I'm getting doggone tired of living the life of a jackrabbit on the half hop all the time. If anybody robs a bank within 40 miles of where we are, we get the blame for it.” 6:13
Seen
horse [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], camping gear [frame:1], tripod structure [frame:2], bandaged leg [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: survival under pressure, misunderstanding, frustration with false accusation; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men are in a rocky outdoor setting with a horse and camping gear; one stands while the other sits and tends to a leg wound. They argue about the severity of the injury and the stress of being falsely blamed for crimes.

“Is that the wound you've been yelling about?” 5:50 · “From listening to you, I thought we're going to have to amputate your leg. I suppose you keep your opinion to yourself if someone asks you for it.” 5:53 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 5:52 (passage 5:45–6:19); US record: No renewal found

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