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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

8:01–8:26 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:148:14

Play from 8:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 41–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, belt with buckle visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, belt with buckle, standing slightly forward visible
  • Mr. Drake (named at t:8:01): man with receding hairline, wearing dark suit, bent forward visible
Also said
“You boys got a great thing in this.” 8:07 · “And I'm going to get a lot of pleasure out of watching you make a thing.” 8:09
Seen
cowboy hats, dark vests, belt with buckle, dark suit, wall with decorative element
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: transactional and slightly ominous; themes: agreement, power dynamics, Western genre tropes; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns, minimal set dressing

Two men in cowboy hats stand while a third man is bent over; dialogue suggests a transaction or agreement with Mr. Drake. The setting appears to be an interior space with minimal decoration.

“We'll take it, Mr. Drake.” 8:01 · “Fine, fine.” 8:04 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 8:14 (passage 8:01–8:26); US record: No renewal found

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