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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 36 · permalink

Street

13:21–13:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:3113:31Frame at 13:4913:49

Play from 13:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 76–77. 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
  • man wearing light-colored cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, standing on left visible
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, standing on right visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a document titled 'Government of Government Mail Contract' listing conditions for a stage line. [frame:1]
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand side by side in front of a wooden building. [frame:2]
Also said
“I smell something funny. But why?” 13:48 · “All right.” 13:54
Seen
document, cowboy hats, wooden building
On screen
Government of Government Mail Contract 1. Any stage line with a regular route is eligible. 2. Conditions: On November 2, the stage coach leaving Buchanan at 9:00 A.M. and arriving at Sacramento in the shortest time, will be awarded the government mail subsidy of twenty-five thousand dollars. SEE POSTMASTER FOR FURTHER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: contractual obligation, suspicion, decision-making; style notes: medium shot of two men outdoors, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats stand outside a wooden building while one holds a document listing government mail contract terms. A voice says they will go, comments on a field, smells something funny, and agrees twice.

“I'm going to go.” 13:30 · “That field doesn't sound so bad after all.” 13:41 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 13:31 (passage 13:21–13:55); US record: No renewal found

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