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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 49 · permalink

Street

18:29–18:34 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3218:32

Play from 18:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 102–102. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in Western hat and coat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and hat, mid-adult, average build, central figure visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, mid-adult, average build, facing p2 visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, mid-adult, average build, standing to right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt is moving rapidly through a crowd of men on a street. [frame:1]
Seen
sign reading 'BILLY JUSTICE', Western-style hats and coats, wooden building facade
On screen
BILLY JUSTICE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western genre, crowd dynamics; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor daylight lighting, static camera

A group of men in period Western attire are gathered outside a building with a sign reading 'BILLY JUSTICE' during daylight. One man in the center appears to be moving quickly or being pushed through the crowd.

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 18:32 (passage 18:29–18:34); US record: No renewal found

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