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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 120 · permalink

Private office

37:50–37:57 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 37:5337:53

Play from 37:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 227–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, light hair styled up, holding an object visible
  • man, dark shirt, dark pants, standing facing p1 visible
Seen
round mirror [frame:1], object held by woman [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a woman stand indoors facing each other; the woman holds an object. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 37:53 (passage 37:50–37:57); US record: No renewal found

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