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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 190 · permalink

Town square

54:14–54:44 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:1954:19Frame at 54:3054:30Frame at 54:4054:40

Play from 54:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 90 · shots 378–380. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light coat and hat, exiting stagecoach visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near stagecoach visible
  • crowd of men and women in period clothing visible
  • Rocky (named at t:54:33): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A stagecoach is parked at a finish line with a banner reading 'GOVERNMENT MAIL RACE FINISH'. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat sits atop the stagecoach labeled 'CRESCENT CITY STAGE'. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light coat exits the stagecoach and is greeted by another man. [frame:3]
Seen
stagecoach [frame:2], banner reading 'GOVERNMENT MAIL RACE FINISH' [frame:1], sign reading 'CRESCENT CITY STAGE' [frame:2], crowd of spectators [frame:1]
On screen
[{'text': 'GOVERNMENT MAIL RACE FINISH', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}, {'text': 'CRESCENT CITY STAGE', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant; themes: victory, transportation, public celebration; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot of crowd and stagecoach, medium close-up of exit, period costume

A man exits a stagecoach at a finish line where a crowd and banner are visible. A voice calls out to someone named Rocky, declaring they have won.

“Come on out, Rocky. We've won.” 54:33 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 54:19 (passage 54:14–54:44); US record: No renewal found

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