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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 81 · permalink

Sidewalk

32:55–33:04 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 32:5932:59

Play from 32:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 159–159. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Sheriff (named at t:32:56): man wearing dark shirt, black hat, white neckerchief, and belt; appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man wearing light shirt, wide-brimmed hat, dark neckerchief, light pants, and belt; appears middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand beside a brick wall and talk. [frame:1]
Seen
brick wall [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], neckerchiefs [frame:1], belts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly dismissive; themes: western, everyday interaction, authority figure; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, static framing, naturalistic lighting

Two men in cowboy attire stand beside a brick wall and exchange remarks about the weather. One man is addressed as Sheriff, and both appear relaxed in their posture.

“Howdy, Sheriff. Nice weather we're having, ain't it?” 32:56 · “Maybe it is. Who cares?” 32:56 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 32:59 (passage 32:55–33:04); US record: No renewal found

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