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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 15 · permalink

Private office

6:32–6:54 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:376:37Frame at 6:436:43Frame at 6:496:49

Play from 6:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 34–36. 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:3
People
  • older man, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, seated visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, standing with cigarette in mouth visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing to left of p2 visible
Seen happening
  • One cowboy-hatted man stands with a cigarette in his mouth. [frame:2]
  • The suited man gestures toward a display while the two cowboys look on. [frame:3]
Also said
“Maybe I can help you boys out.” 6:45 · “See all those live?” 6:48
Seen
bow tie, cowboy hat, cigarette, desk with papers, wall-mounted map or display
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and transactional; themes: business negotiation, frontier enterprise, class contrast; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A man in formal attire speaks to two men in cowboy hats inside a dimly lit room; the transcript indicates a discussion about funding a stage line. One man gestures toward a map or display of routes while the others listen.

“Well, you boys are settling you at the game.” 6:33 · “You've got to go through a lot of red tape to start a stage line.” 6:37 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 6:37 (passage 6:32–6:54); US record: No renewal found

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