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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

38:41–38:55 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; 5 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 38:4838:48

Play from 38:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 232–232. 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
  • man wearing cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark jacket, standing visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark jacket, facing others visible
Also said
“This race means too much to me.” 38:48 · “nothing's gonna keep me from it.” 38:52
Seen
desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and determined; themes: determination, rivalry, western genre; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

Four men in cowboy hats stand around a desk where a fifth man sits; one of the standing men speaks about riding on the box tomorrow and winning a race. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond the desk and papers are clearly identifiable.

“You gonna ride on the box tomorrow, Drake?” 38:45 · “Sure thing.” 38:47 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 38:48 (passage 38:41–38:55); US record: No renewal found

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