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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 10 · permalink

Buchanan city

5:00–5:23 Registered 1936

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:045:04Frame at 5:115:11Frame at 5:185:18

Play from 5:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 23–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
Buchanan City (town square, exterior) evidence: t:5:09, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and vest, light shirt, on horseback visible, audible
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and vest, on horseback visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback approach a town. [frame:1]
  • The town of Buchanan City is shown with wooden buildings and a dirt street. [frame:2]
  • The two men are seen talking while mounted. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hope that fella Drake's got a stage coach he'll sell us.” 5:14 · “Oh, the stage line the size of his. He ought to have plenty of old ones. He'd be glad to get rid of it.” 5:17
Seen
horses [frame:1, frame:3], stagecoach [frame:2], wooden buildings [frame:2], dirt street [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: frontier travel, negotiation, Western town arrival; style notes: black-and-white Western framing, medium shots of characters on horseback, wide shot of town street, natural daylight

Two men on horseback approach a Western town called Buchanan City, discussing the possibility of buying a stagecoach from someone named Drake. The town is shown with wooden buildings and a dirt street, and the men are seen in conversation while mounted.

“There she is.” 5:08 · “Buchanan City.” 5:09 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 Winds of the Wasteland (1936) at 5:04 (passage 5:00–5:23); US record: No renewal found

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