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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 3 · permalink

Field

1:39–1:47 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:421:42Frame at 1:461:46

Play from 1:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–3. 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
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing and a hat visible
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing and a hat, standing on a rise visible
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing and a hat, standing on a rise visible
Seen happening
  • A person on horseback rides along a dirt path. [frame:1]
  • Two other figures on horseback are visible on a rise in the background. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], horse [frame:2], hat [frame:1], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, western landscape; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, black and white, static camera

A person on horseback rides along a dirt path in a hilly, grassy landscape. Two other figures on horseback are visible on a rise in the background.

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 1:42 (passage 1:39–1:47); US record: No renewal found

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