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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 38 · permalink

Outdoor wooded area

9:08–9:27 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:119:11Frame at 9:209:20

Play from 9:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 78–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor wooded area (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Puffy (named at t:9:14): man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark Western shirt and vest visible, audible
  • Jeff (named at t:9:16): man wearing light shirt, wide-brimmed hat, and bandolier visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The men stand close, one placing a hand on the other's shoulder. [frame:2]
Also said
“When you get yourself shut full of holes and all crippled up, why...” 9:18 · “Come on over and sit under my fig tree for a spell. All right.” 9:21
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, bandolier, Western shirt and vest, fig tree
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: bittersweet farewell; themes: farewell, camaraderie, Western frontier; style notes: medium close-up, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume detail

Two men in Western attire speak outdoors near trees; one is called 'Puffy' and the other 'Jeff'. They exchange farewells and a conditional invitation to rest under a fig tree if injured.

“Bye, Puffy.” 9:14 · “Same to you, Jeff.” 9:16 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 9:11 (passage 9:08–9:27); US record: No renewal found

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