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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 168 · permalink

Field

48:32–48:50 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3548:35Frame at 48:3948:39Frame at 48:4248:42Frame at 48:4748:47

Play from 48:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 308–311. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, and vest, visible from the side and back visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and plaid shirt, standing with back to camera visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, facing p1, partially visible visible
  • rider on horseback, distant, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand around a large object in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • Two men face each other near foliage, one gesturing. [frame:2]
  • A rider on horseback approaches across an open field with hills in the background. [frame:3]
  • Two men face each other, one speaking with mouth open. [frame:4]
Seen
wide-brimmed hats, plaid shirt, vest, large object (possibly a log or rock), horse, trees and foliage
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, group action; style notes: black-and-white Western framing; medium shots of characters in natural setting, wide shot for establishing distance and approach

Three men in hats and period Western clothing are gathered around a large object in a wooded area; one man speaks as they appear to prepare or react to something. A distant shot shows a rider on horseback approaching across an open field with hills in the background.

“Here he comes.” 48:35 · “This ought to stop him.” 48:46 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 48:35 (passage 48:32–48:50); US record: No renewal found

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