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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 172 · permalink

Forest

48:58–49:11 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0249:02Frame at 49:0749:07Frame at 49:1049:10

Play from 48:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 315–317. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, seated on top of a stagecoach visible
  • man wearing a hat and coat, exiting the stagecoach door visible
Seen happening
  • A stagecoach moves through a wooded area, kicking up dust. [frame:1]
  • A man sits atop the moving stagecoach. [frame:2]
  • A man exits the stagecoach through its door. [frame:3]
Seen
stagecoach [frame:1], hat [frame:2], coat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: travel, suspense, western; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

A stagecoach is shown moving through a wooded area, with a man visible on top and another exiting the vehicle. A voice asks, "What's the matter?" during the sequence.

“What's the matter?” 49:05 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 49:02 (passage 48:58–49:11); US record: No renewal found

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