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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

6:01–6:32 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:086:08Frame at 6:216:21Frame at 6:306:30

Play from 6:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 31–33. 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 in cowboy hat, vest, and neckerchief, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, vest, and neckerchief, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Drake (named at t:6:11): older man with mustache, seated, wearing dark coat, behind desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men enter an office and address a seated man. [frame:1]
Also said
“We figured you might have an old one you'd sell us cheap. Stagecoach.” 6:12 · “You have to have one of those to start a stage line?” 6:30
Seen
{'item': 'desk', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'papers on desk', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wall-mounted lamp', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'map on wall', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'vests', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'neckerchiefs', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly skeptical; themes: entrepreneurial ambition, bureaucratic requirements, Western frontier commerce; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period Western costumes, formal office setting

Two men in cowboy attire enter an office and ask to buy a stagecoach from a seated man named Drake, who questions their lack of a franchise. The conversation reveals they have not yet decided on a route or legal authorization for their stage line.

“What can I do for you?” 6:07 · “We want to buy a stagecoach, Mr.” 6:09 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 6:08 (passage 6:01–6:32); US record: No renewal found

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