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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 44 · permalink

Sidewalk

15:48–16:07 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; 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 15:5815:58

Play from 15:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 89–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, plaid shirt, dark vest, and suspenders visible
  • man wearing light-colored long-sleeve shirt, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat speaks to another man in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • The man in the doorway listens with his hand near his face. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden building with doorway [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], vest and suspenders [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or conversational; themes: Western confrontation, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns

A man in a cowboy hat and vest stands outside a wooden building, speaking to another man visible in a doorway. The second man, wearing a light shirt, listens with his hand near his face.

“I'm” 15:49 · “I” 15:58 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 15:58 (passage 15:48–16:07); US record: No renewal found

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