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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 30 · permalink

Town square

10:38–11:01 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 10:4210:42Frame at 10:4810:48Frame at 10:5210:52Frame at 10:5810:58

Play from 10:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 60–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Rocky Bryan (named at t:10:49): man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana around neck visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana around neck visible, audible
  • man in bowler hat, light shirt, dark vest, mustache visible, audible
Also said
“huh? Yeah, yeah, sir. Doc Forsythe lives over there near the hotel.” 10:59
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:1], building with windows [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: authority roles, town life, introductions; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight lighting, Western genre framing

Three men in cowboy hats converse outdoors in a town setting; one identifies himself as Rocky Bryan and mentions Doc Forsythe. The dialogue references roles as sheriff, mayor, and council president, and asks about other residents.

“Was that you I heard shooting? Sure, what of it? As sheriff, I could arrest you for that. But as mayor, I welcome you to Crescent City.” 10:40 · “As president of the council, I gave myself the afternoon off. I am Rocky Bryan. Does anyone else live here besides you and the pigs?” 10:49 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 10:42 (passage 10:38–11:01); US record: No renewal found

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