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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 34 · permalink

Street

12:48–13:11 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; 4 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 12:5112:51Frame at 13:0313:03

Play from 12:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 73–74. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing left visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing center visible
  • man in hat and shirt, holding stick, facing p4 visible
  • older man in hat and shirt, speaking to p3 visible, audible
Also said
“We can get them. You can get them, all right, if you could land that mail contract. Mail contract? Yes.” 12:57 · “Being postmaster of this here city, I'm in on the nose.” 13:07
Seen
wagon wheel [frame:1], stick [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational with undertones of negotiation; themes: frontier commerce, local authority, transportation contracts; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Three men in cowboy attire stand near a wagon wheel; one speaks with an older man holding a stick. The dialogue references a mail contract and the postmaster's role in the city.

“Oh, my God.” 12:50 · “Well, it isn't much to look at.” 12:53 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 12:51 (passage 12:48–13:11); US record: No renewal found

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