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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 113 · permalink

Road

35:08–35:19 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1235:12Frame at 35:1735:17

Play from 35:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 215–216. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Larry (named at t:35:09): man in hat and light shirt, standing on porch visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing on porch visible
  • woman with curly hair and light dress, standing on porch visible
  • group of riders on horseback, distant visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move away from a wooden structure, raising dust. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand on a porch, one speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
horseback riders [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1], porch [frame:2], dust cloud [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: absence, expectation, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A group of people on horseback rides away from a wooden structure while dust rises. Three individuals stand on a porch, one speaking about someone named Larry who should be driving.

“Where's Larry? He ought to be driver.” 35:09 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 35:12 (passage 35:08–35:19); US record: No renewal found

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