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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 37 · permalink

Field

8:45–9:08 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:518:51Frame at 9:039:03

Play from 8:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 76–77. 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
  • Billy (named at t:9:07): man in dark cowboy hat and shirt, with a scar or mark on his cheek visible, audible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat and plaid shirt, standing beside a horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close together outdoors, one with his arm on the other's shoulder. [frame:1]
  • One man mounts a horse and prepares to ride away. [frame:2]
Also said
“Dirt farming is a full-time job.” 8:59 · “Bye, Billy.” 9:07
Seen
cowboy hat, plaid shirt, horse, saddle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, parting; themes: rural life vs. outlaw life, farewell, personal choice; style notes: medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy attire are shown outdoors; one speaks about the demands of farming versus a life of conflict. One man departs on horseback after the conversation.

“I can't see myself wrangling squash and potatoes and...” 8:47 · “Riding herd on a field of alfalfa. You know, Fuzzy, if you've got any idea that you're going to find any time to sit under a fig tree, you're a loco.” 8:51 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 8:51 (passage 8:45–9:08); US record: No renewal found

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