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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 109 · permalink

Field

33:42–34:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4633:46Frame at 33:5333:53Frame at 33:5933:59Frame at 34:0234:02

Play from 33:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 205–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with beard, wearing cowboy hat and vest visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and jacket visible
  • man wearing plaid shirt and cowboy hat visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, seen from behind visible
  • person driving horse-drawn vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn vehicle ascends a hill. [frame:1]
  • The horse-drawn vehicle descends a slope with horses running. [frame:2]
  • Men in cowboy hats stand and talk in a field. [frame:3]
  • A man in a vest turns away from another man in a plaid shirt. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why, that double-crossing crook.” 33:49
Seen
horse-drawn vehicle [frame:1], horses [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:3], vest [frame:3], plaid shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, pursuit, betrayal; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor wide shots, medium shots of characters in period Western attire

A horse-drawn vehicle travels over rough terrain while men in cowboy hats argue nearby. One man is described in the transcript as a 'double-crossing crook'.

“Where in blazes is he?” 33:49 · “Don't ask me.” 33:49 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 33:46 (passage 33:42–34:03); US record: No renewal found

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