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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 189 · permalink

Road

53:52–54:14 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; 3 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 53:5553:55Frame at 54:0054:00Frame at 54:0654:06Frame at 54:1254:12

Play from 53:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 371–377. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • rider on horseback, wearing dark clothing, visible in silhouette visible
  • rider on horseback, visible from behind, wearing dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, visible in profile, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Horses and riders move along a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • Riders continue moving forward, seen from behind. [frame:2]
  • Group of riders approaches a settlement with buildings. [frame:4]
Seen
horses [frame:1], saddles and reins [frame:1], dirt road [frame:3], buildings [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: journey, arrival, western setting; style notes: black and white, high contrast, dynamic motion captured in medium and long shots

A group of riders on horseback moves along a dirt road, approaching a small settlement with buildings visible. The scene is shot in black and white with high-contrast lighting, and a line of dialogue is spoken during the sequence.

“Oh, my God.” 53:56 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 53:55 (passage 53:52–54:14); US record: No renewal found

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