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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 2 · permalink

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0:44–1:52 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:181:18

Play from 0:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
title card [frame:1]
On screen
This picture is dedicated to the unsung heroes of the Old West who gave their lives to bring the thin strands of communication across the trackless wastes of the great American Desert, braving the perils of the trail, that the
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: dedication to historical figures, pioneering in harsh environments; style notes: static title card with high-contrast white text on a dark, atmospheric background; no camera movement or framing variation.

A title card dedicates the film to unsung heroes of the Old West who established communication across the American Desert. No people, actions, or objects beyond the text and background are visible in the single frame.

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 1:18 (passage 0:44–1:52); US record: No renewal found

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