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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 159 · permalink

Saloon

46:09–46:37 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:1046:10Frame at 46:1346:13Frame at 46:1746:17Frame at 46:2846:28

Play from 46:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 74 · shots 289–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
saloon (shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, seated on porch visible
  • woman in light dress, standing on porch visible
  • man in hat and dark coat, walking away from building visible
  • group of men in hats, standing on porch and street visible
  • man in hat, standing on porch visible
Seen happening
  • People are gathered on the porch of a saloon. [frame:1]
  • A crowd stands on the street near the saloon. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a dress stands on the porch next to a seated man. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat walks away from the saloon down the street. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden porch railing, sign reading 'BAR' and 'SALOON', wooden building with porch, dust cloud on street, hats worn by multiple men
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: Western frontier, stagecoach arrival, community gathering; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high contrast lighting

A stagecoach is at a wooden building with a sign reading 'BAR' and 'SALOON'. People are visible on the porch and on the street, including a man in a hat walking away from the building. A line mentions 'Drake's stage' and 'funny express horses'.

“Oh, it's Drake's stage.” 46:16 · “Get those funny express horses. Good boy, John.” 46:32 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 46:10 (passage 46:09–46:37); US record: No renewal found

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