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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 7 · permalink

Rocky terrain

1:51–1:54 Registered 1941

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

Frame at 1:531:53

Play from 1:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 7–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky terrain (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and dark coat, being pulled from horse visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat and light shirt, holding reins visible
  • man on horseback, wearing dark hat and coat, observing visible
  • man on horseback, wearing light shirt and hat, holding rifle visible
Seen happening
  • A man is being pulled from his horse by another man while others on horseback observe or ride nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
horse, hat, rifle, rocks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, western confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, outdoor action framing

A group of men on horseback are shown in a rocky outdoor setting; one man is being pulled from his horse while others watch or ride nearby. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:53 (passage 1:51–1:54); US record: No renewal found

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