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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 151 · permalink

Field

44:05–44:26 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1244:12Frame at 44:2244:22

Play from 44:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 273–274. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and dark shirt, holding a rifle visible
  • Ron (named at t:44:16): man wearing a light-colored top hat and dark coat, seated beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a vehicle in an open field with hills in the background. [frame:1]
  • The two men remain seated; one holds a rifle, the other wears a top hat. [frame:2]
Seen
rifle [frame:2], vehicle [frame:1], top hat [frame:2], dark hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anticipatory; themes: survival, racing, companionship under stress; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men sit in a vehicle in a hilly, open landscape; one speaks about another not making it and tells Ron not to stay in a race. No named characters or indoor settings are shown or stated.

“I didn't think he was going to make it.” 44:06 · “Oh, don't go stay in a race, Ron.” 44:16 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 44:12 (passage 44:05–44:26); US record: No renewal found

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