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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 169 · permalink

Field

48:50–48:56 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:5348:53

Play from 48:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 312–312. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a hat and dark clothing, seated on a wagon visible
  • wearing a hat and dark clothing, seated on a wagon visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn wagon with two riders moves forward across a dusty terrain. [frame:1]
Seen
horse-drawn wagon [frame:1], horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desolate and in motion; themes: travel, frontier, journey; style notes: wide shot, black-and-white, low-contrast lighting, dusty atmosphere

A horse-drawn wagon with two riders moves across a dusty, open landscape with hills in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 48:53 (passage 48:50–48:56); US record: No renewal found

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