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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 21 · permalink

Street

8:46–9:10 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 8:508:50Frame at 8:558:55Frame at 9:069:06Frame at 9:099:09

Play from 8:46 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 9 · shots 45–49. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • wearing a hat and dark clothing, riding a dark horse visible
  • wearing a hat and light-colored clothing, riding a white horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback move along a dusty street. [frame:2]
  • The riders continue forward, kicking up dust. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:2], buildings [frame:4], dust [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: hurried, dusty; themes: movement, western setting, dust; style notes: black and white, high contrast, motion blur, wide shot

Two riders on horseback move through a dusty street lined with low buildings. The scene is shot in black and white with motion blur and overexposed lighting.

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 8:50 (passage 8:46–9:10); US record: No renewal found

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