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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 192 · permalink

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54:46–54:55 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 54:5054:50

Play from 54:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 382–382. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a top hat and dark suit with bow tie visible
  • partially visible person, light-colored clothing visible
  • John Blair (named at t:54:50): unknown audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat stands beside a chalkboard sign. [frame:1]
Seen
chalkboard sign [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
On screen
{'value': 'Crescent City Lines\n410\nCHUS\nW', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: gratitude, public address; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a top hat and suit stands beside a chalkboard sign reading 'Crescent City Lines' and '410' while another person is partially visible. A voice thanks John Blair.

“And we must never forget, my friends.” 54:47 · “How much we owe to John Blair. That's right.” 54:50 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 54:50 (passage 54:46–54:55); US record: No renewal found

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