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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 193 · permalink

Private office

54:55–55:41 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:0255:02Frame at 55:1455:14Frame at 55:2155:21Frame at 55:3455:34

Play from 54:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 383–389. 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
  • John (named at t:54:58): man in dark suit, bow tie, and bowler hat, older, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light patterned dress with ruffles, light hair, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat, vest, and shirt, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A skunk is lying on the ground. [frame:3]
Also said
“Hey, look!” 55:04 · “Oh, boy!” 55:05
Seen
skunk [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
On screen
The Republic Pictures End
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, concluding; themes: gratitude, humor, studio branding; style notes: black-and-white studio lighting, medium close-ups, abrupt cut to animal gag, followed by static end card

A man in a suit and hat speaks to a woman and a cowboy; a skunk is shown on the ground; the film ends with a studio logo. No names are established for the characters beyond what is spoken in the dialogue.

“I don't know how I could ever repay you, John.” 54:58 · “I do.” 55:03 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 55:02 (passage 54:55–55:41); US record: No renewal found

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