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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

6:54–7:45 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:087:08Frame at 7:267:26Frame at 7:387:38

Play from 6:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 37–39. 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 dark cowboy hat and vest, light shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • man in light cowboy hat, patterned shirt, bandana, holding a document visible, audible
  • older man in dark suit, balding, formal attire visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand in an office with a map on the wall. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light cowboy hat holds a document and looks at it. [frame:2]
  • The man in the light cowboy hat continues to hold the document while the other man looks on. [frame:3]
Also said
“How far is this Crescent City? 35 miles north of here.” 7:20 · “Crescent City.” 7:42
Seen
map [frame:1], document [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: business deal, frontier commerce, negotiation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

Two men in cowboy hats negotiate the sale of a stagecoach line to a third man in a suit, referencing a town called Crescent City. One man shows a document while the other listens, with a map visible in the background.

“I kind of bit off a little more than I could chew, and I've been neglecting the Crescent City line lately.” 6:54 · “How much do you want for it? $3,000?” 7:04 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 7:08 (passage 6:54–7:45); US record: No renewal found

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