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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 62 · permalink

Road

21:49–21:57 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5321:53

Play from 21:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 122–122. 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
  • rider in dark clothing and hat, on a white horse, seen from behind visible
  • rider on a dark horse, seen from behind, further away visible
Seen happening
  • A rider on a white horse rides away from the camera down a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • A second rider on a dark horse follows behind the first. [frame:1]
Seen
white horse [frame:1], dark horse [frame:1], wooden building [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: movement, pursuit, western setting; style notes: wide shot, black and white, rear view of riders moving away, static camera

A rider on a white horse moves away from the camera on a dirt road, followed by another rider on a dark horse. A wooden building and trees are visible in the background.

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 21:53 (passage 21:49–21:57); US record: No renewal found

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