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Billy the Kid Wanted · Beat 96 · permalink

Street

36:49–37:08 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:5536:55Frame at 37:0337:03Frame at 37:0637:06

Play from 36:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 183–185. 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
  • man on horseback, wearing dark clothing and a hat visible
  • man in uniform, wearing a hat and light-colored pants, standing in a shop visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing behind a counter in a dim room visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is visible outside a building. [frame:1]
  • A uniformed man stands in a shop interior with shelves of goods. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit stands behind a counter in a dimly lit room. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hi, Jeff.” 37:03 · “Where's the fire?” 37:05
Seen
horse [frame:1], saddle [frame:1], shelves with bottles and jars [frame:2], counter [frame:3], clock [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent, suggested by the dialogue and quick cuts between locations; themes: confrontation, suspense, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting in interior scenes, static camera

A man on horseback is seen outside a building, then a uniformed man stands in a shop interior, and finally a man in a suit is visible behind a counter in a dimly lit room. The transcript includes brief dialogue: an apology, a question, a greeting to 'Jeff', and a query about a fire.

“I'm sorry.” 36:56 · “What?” 37:00 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 36:55 (passage 36:49–37:08); US record: No renewal found

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