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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 31 · permalink

Town square

11:01–12:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:1311:13Frame at 11:4211:42Frame at 11:4811:48Frame at 12:1312:13

Play from 11:01 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 14 · shots 64–69. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in light shirt, dark pants, wide-brimmed hat, standing alone near fence visible
  • William Forsythe (named at t:11:28): man in vest, light shirt, dark pants, wide-brimmed hat, shaking hands visible, audible
  • Blair (named at t:11:37): man in dark vest, light shirt, dark pants, wide-brimmed hat, shaking hands visible, audible
  • Larry Adams (named at t:11:39): man in light shirt, dark pants, wide-brimmed hat, standing beside Blair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands alone near a wooden fence and building. [frame:1]
  • Three men shake hands in front of a building with a sign. [frame:2]
  • Two men face each other in conversation near a windowed building. [frame:3]
  • Three men walk together down a dusty street. [frame:4]
Also said
“My name is Blair.” 11:37 · “This is Larry Adams.” 11:39
Seen
wooden picket fence, wooden building with sign, windowed building, wide-brimmed hats, vests
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but cordial; themes: frontier commerce, deception in business, newcomers in a declining town; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, Western costume details prominent

Three men in Western attire meet another man outside a building; they discuss buying a stage line and being misled, then are led to a stagecoach. The setting is a dusty town with wooden buildings and a picket fence, suggesting a frontier environment.

“I'd like to customers for our stage line. Yeah. Are you going to run the Crescenton stage, stranger?” 11:11 · “These fellows have taken over the Crescent City stage line. We're the suckers who bought it, all right. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm William Forsythe.” 11:28 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 11:13 (passage 11:01–12:18); US record: No renewal found

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