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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 117 · permalink

Living room

37:11–37:22 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:1537:15Frame at 37:2137:21

Play from 37:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 55 · shots 223–224. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, wearing a vest and bow tie visible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark high-collared shirt visible
  • woman, light curly hair, wearing a striped blouse with lace collar visible
Also said
“Larry means more to me than anyone else in the world.” 37:16 · “Do something for him, will you?” 37:19
Seen
wall clock, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: personal crisis, appeal for help, emotional dependence; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men speak in a room while a woman looks on with concern. One man asks another to help someone named Larry.

“I've lost confidence.” 37:12 · “I'd be afraid of... Listen, Doc.” 37:13 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 37:15 (passage 37:11–37:22); US record: No renewal found

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