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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 136 · permalink

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40:27–40:52 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; 2 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 40:2940:29Frame at 40:4140:41

Play from 40:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 248–249. 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, frame:2
People
  • Wearing a hat and dark clothing, holding a long object (possibly a rifle or pole), visible in silhouette. visible
  • Dark-clothed figure, partially visible, engaged in struggle with p1. visible
Seen happening
  • A figure in a hat holds a long object while struggling with another figure in a dark doorway. [frame:1]
  • Smoke or dust rises behind the figures in the doorway. [frame:2]
Seen
long object (rifle or pole) [frame:1], doorway with bright light [frame:1, frame:2], smoke or dust [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, danger; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures, static framing

Two figures struggle in a dark doorway as smoke rises; one holds a long object. A voice exclaims 'Oh, my God.' at 40:30.

“Oh, my God.” 40:30 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 40:29 (passage 40:27–40:52); US record: No renewal found

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