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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 160 · permalink

Town square

46:37–47:13 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 46:4446:44Frame at 46:5546:55Frame at 47:0447:04Frame at 47:1047:10

Play from 46:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 293–296. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible on foot near fence visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat, visible near building visible
  • man on foot, holding long tool, visible near wagon visible
  • Blair (named at t:47:13): man on horseback, partially visible in frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • Men on horseback and on foot gather near a fence and building. [frame:1]
  • A man on foot holds a long tool near a wagon while others ride past. [frame:2]
  • Horses and riders move quickly past a wooden structure. [frame:3]
  • Riders and horses are seen near a fence under trees, with dust or smoke rising. [frame:4]
Also said
“And Blair got loose somehow, and it's up to you to stop him.” 47:13
Seen
horses [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], wooden building [frame:2], long tool (possibly a pitchfork) [frame:2], wagon [frame:2], trees [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, duty, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor Western setting, medium to long shots, natural lighting with high contrast shadows

A group of men on horseback and on foot are gathered near a wooden fence and building in an outdoor setting. One man speaks, instructing another to stop someone named Blair who has escaped.

“Yeah, come on. Come on.” 46:59 · “Yes.” 47:04 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 46:44 (passage 46:37–47:13); US record: No renewal found

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