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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 39 · permalink

Road

9:27–9:48 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; 3 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 9:359:35Frame at 9:469:46

Play from 9:27 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 20 · shots 80–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, visible from back visible
  • man in light cowboy hat and light shirt, visible from back, holding a rifle visible
  • man on horseback, wearing dark hat, riding away visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand watching a third man ride away on horseback. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light hat raises his rifle slightly as the rider moves into the distance. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 9:37 · “I'm going to go.” 9:42
Seen
horse, rifle, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense departure; themes: departure, confrontation, Western genre tropes; style notes: medium long shot, backlit figures, high contrast black and white, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats watch a third man ride away on horseback. One man speaks repeatedly about leaving, while another says 'Adios' as the rider departs.

“Come on.” 9:26 · “Adios.” 9:36 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 9:35 (passage 9:27–9:48); US record: No renewal found

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