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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 138 · permalink

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41:15–41:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 41:2141:21Frame at 41:2841:28Frame at 41:3341:33

Play from 41:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 66 · shots 252–254. 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, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, visible in frame:2 and frame:3, facing p1 visible
  • man with mustache, wearing a hat and tie, visible in frame:3 visible
  • man with dark hat and coat, visible in frame:3, behind p3 visible
  • Cal Drake (named at t:41:29): unspecified, mentioned in transcript mentioned
  • Blair (named at t:41:21): unspecified, mentioned in transcript mentioned
Also said
“Who swore out the one? Cal Drake. Can't you see this is a trick to try and keep me out of that mail race? I'm sorry, but I've got to do my duty.” 41:29
Seen
hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], coat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: justice, accusation, self-defense, sabotage; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, period Western attire, black-and-white film stock

A man is being arrested on a warrant sworn by Cal Drake, who is accused of trying to sabotage a mail race. The arrestee claims self-defense and that the warrant is a trick.

“You're under arrest. What for? For shooting a man.” 41:15 · “Well, we're in self-defense.” 41:19 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 41:21 (passage 41:15–41:36); US record: No renewal found

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