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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 31 · permalink

Field

6:52–7:23 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:546:54Frame at 6:586:58Frame at 7:117:11Frame at 7:217:21

Play from 6:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 61–65. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man with beard, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and plaid shirt, holding a rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen sitting with a rifle in a rocky area. [frame:2]
  • The man is shown handling his rifle while seated on a rock. [frame:3]
  • The man is seen lying on the ground next to a horse and a rifle. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], horse [frame:4], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], plaid shirt [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], rocky terrain [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: Western frontier, confrontation, survival; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor framing with natural lighting, medium and wide shots emphasizing isolation

A man in Western attire is shown in a rocky outdoor setting with a horse and a rifle. A loud noise is heard, followed by a line of dialogue mocking others for lacking courage.

“*Loud noise*” 6:52 · “fellas sound like a couple of magpies and show half as much sand” 6:57 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 6:54 (passage 6:52–7:23); US record: No renewal found

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