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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 56 · permalink

Jail

20:14–20:35 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 20:2320:23Frame at 20:3320:33

Play from 20:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 112–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing wide-brimmed hat, behind bars visible
  • man wearing bowler hat, writing at desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands behind bars. [frame:1]
  • A man writes at a desk. [frame:2]
Also said
“Every morning when it's done up on the prairie.” 20:29
Seen
bars, desk, pen, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and confined; themes: confinement, routine, prairie life; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shots, dramatic lighting emphasizing bars and facial expressions

Two men are shown in separate shots: one behind bars wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and another at a desk writing while wearing a bowler hat. The transcript includes a line about a tumbling wheel and a reference to the prairie.

“And you tumble to the tum-tum-tumbling wheel” 20:23 · “Amen.” 20:28 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 20:23 (passage 20:14–20:35); US record: No renewal found

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