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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 30 · permalink

Forest

6:19–6:52 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:316:31Frame at 6:446:44Frame at 6:466:46Frame at 6:506:50

Play from 6:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 18 · shots 57–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark Western outfit with wide-brimmed hat and neckerchief, holding a small object visible
  • man in light shirt, vest, and wide-brimmed hat, seated with rifle leaning against him visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit outdoors examining a small object. [frame:1]
Also said
“You know, now that you mention it, so do I.” 6:42 · “Uh, but Bill, don't you think this one looks a little more intelligent? Huh? I didn't see that.” 6:45
Seen
small object being examined, rifle leaning against man, wide-brimmed hats, neck scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational with undertones of suspicion or irony; themes: identity, resemblance, suspicion, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and props

Two men in Western attire are seated outdoors near rocks and foliage, examining a small object. One man comments on a family resemblance to someone named Fuzzy, and they discuss the object's appearance.

“You know, you give a fellow a bad name and he comes in mighty handy to hang things up.” 6:23 · “I noticed quite a family resemblance to Fuzzy.” 6:39 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 6:31 (passage 6:19–6:52); US record: No renewal found

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