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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 108 · permalink

Mountain

33:08–33:42 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:1033:10Frame at 33:1833:18Frame at 33:2333:23Frame at 33:3833:38

Play from 33:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 199–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark hat and coat, on horseback, holding reins visible
  • man in light hat and shirt, on horseback, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark hat, on horseback, seen from behind in frame 3, riding away visible
  • man in plaid shirt and hat, on horseback, visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback speaks to others near a mountain pass. [frame:1]
  • Riders begin to move out from the group. [frame:3]
  • Horses kick up dust as riders move forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah, sure.” 33:17 · “Did he make it easy for us?” 33:19
Seen
horse [frame:1], stagecoach [frame:1], hat [frame:1], reins [frame:1], dust [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: frontier travel, caution, group decision-making; style notes: medium shots, outdoor lighting, dust effects, group movement

A group of men on horseback are near a mountain pass; one suggests others ride ahead to check if it is clear. The riders then move out, kicking up dust as they go.

“Boys, we're getting near the pass.” 33:09 · “Well, what about it? Why don't you fellas better ride ahead and find out if it's clear?” 33:11 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 33:10 (passage 33:08–33:42); US record: No renewal found

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