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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 60 · permalink

Street

21:24–21:45 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2921:29Frame at 21:4021:40

Play from 21:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 119–120. 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
  • dark clothing, running, seen from behind visible
  • light shirt, dark pants, bent over, running visible
  • man in dark suit, bow tie, hat, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures run away from a building. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and bow tie stands in a doorway watching. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden building with windows [frame:1], doorway [frame:2], suit and bow tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: flight, pursuit, group action; style notes: low-angle exterior shot followed by medium close-up; high-contrast lighting; period costume

Two figures run from a building while a third man in a suit and bow tie watches from a doorway. The transcript includes urgent commands to leave and a group exclamation.

“Get going. I'll catch up with you. Go on.” 21:28 · “Let us get it!” 21:41 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 21:29 (passage 21:24–21:45); US record: No renewal found

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