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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 126 · permalink

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38:55–39:20 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; 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 39:0639:06Frame at 39:1939:19

Play from 38:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 233–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • John (named at t:38:58): man wearing a dark shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Rocky (named at t:38:58): man wearing a light shirt and suspenders, smiling, facing p1 visible, audible
Also said
“The whole $10.60.” 39:08 · “It's down at the livery's table. I'm going down there now.” 39:14
Seen
U.S. Post Office sign, wide-brimmed hat, suspenders
On screen
U.S. POST OFFICE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly humorous; themes: Western, gambling, small-town politics; style notes: medium close-up shot with high-contrast lighting, typical of 1930s Westerns; second frame is dark and indistinct, suggesting a transition or cut to black.

Two men greet each other and discuss betting city funds on one of them; one mentions going to the livery's table. A U.S. Post Office sign is visible in the background.

“Hi, John. Hello, Rocky.” 38:58 · “As treasurer of Crescent City, I'm betting the city funds on you, John.” 39:02 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 39:06 (passage 38:55–39:20); US record: No renewal found

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