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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 20 · permalink

Road

8:30–8:46 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:358:35Frame at 8:438:43

Play from 8:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 43–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana; medium build visible
  • man wearing light cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana; smiling, medium build visible
Also said
“Let's start advertising right now. Get a crowd together and make them a speech.” 8:39 · “I'm out.” 8:44
Seen
horses [frame:1, frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2], bandanas [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: Western, transportation, advertising, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, Western costume

Two men on horseback are shown in outdoor shots; one speaks about advertising and then says he is out. The transcript mentions Crescent City and stage lines.

“Crescent City, home of the Adams and Blair stage lines.” 8:31 · “Mail, passengers, and freight carried from coast to coast.” 8:34 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 8:35 (passage 8:30–8:46); US record: No renewal found

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