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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 161 · permalink

Town square

47:13–47:47 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:2347:23Frame at 47:3947:39Frame at 47:4547:45

Play from 47:13 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 297–299. 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:3
People
  • John (named at t:47:19): man wearing hat and light jacket, seated in driver's seat of stagecoach visible
  • man in pants and boots, climbing onto stagecoach visible
  • Barbara (named at t:47:21): woman's voice, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A man climbs onto the roof of a stagecoach. [frame:1]
  • A man sits in the driver's seat of a stagecoach, looking forward. [frame:2]
  • Horses and riders are gathered near a wooden fence in an open area. [frame:3]
Also said
“Thanks, Barbara.” 47:21 · “I'll be riding inside. If you need any help, you whip me up.” 47:23
Seen
stagecoach [frame:1], CITY STAGE sign [frame:1], horses [frame:3], wooden fence [frame:3]
On screen
CITY STAGE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and preparatory; themes: pursuit, departure, team preparation; style notes: medium shots of characters and vehicles, natural outdoor lighting, period costume and props

A man climbs onto a stagecoach marked 'CITY STAGE' while another man sits in the driver's seat; a group of horses and riders are gathered nearby. Dialogue indicates someone named John is being sent to stop a person named Blair, with Barbara wishing him luck and offering assistance from inside the coach.

“And Blair got loose somehow, and it's up to you to stop him.” 47:13 · “Good luck, John.” 47:19 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 47:23 (passage 47:13–47:47); US record: No renewal found

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