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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 162 · permalink

Street

47:47–48:05 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; 2 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 47:4847:48Frame at 47:5547:55Frame at 48:0248:02

Play from 47:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 300–302. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a plaid dress with puffed sleeves, light hair visible, audible
  • man, wearing a white shirt and dark vest, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn wagon is visible on a dusty street with people walking. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands and gestures while speaking to a seated man. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands with arms crossed while the man gestures with his hand. [frame:3]
Also said
“Why, do? Why, he's obstinate.” 47:56 · “Bull-headed?” 48:00
Seen
horse-drawn wagon, sign reading 'S. ADAMS STAGE LINES', sign reading 'WE' (partial), chair
On screen
S. ADAMS STAGE LINES
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, character assessment, transportation setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting on interior, natural lighting on exterior, period costume

A woman and a man are in a conversation inside a building with signage for 'S. ADAMS STAGE LINES'; outside, a dusty street scene shows a horse-drawn wagon and people. The dialogue suggests disagreement about a person named John, described as obstinate and bull-headed.

“I do hope John wins.” 47:50 · “Oh, you really don't want him to win.” 47:53 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 47:48 (passage 47:47–48:05); US record: No renewal found

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