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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 40 · permalink

Street

15:48–16:08 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:5615:56Frame at 16:0616:06

Play from 15:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 85–86. 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 wearing wide-brimmed cowboy hat, light shirt, bandana, and vest visible
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and dark coat, smiling visible
  • crowd of men in cowboy hats, some on horseback, some standing visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand facing each other and appear to be conversing. [frame:2]
  • A crowd gathers on a street around a stagecoach, with some men on horseback. [frame:1]
Seen
stagecoach, cowboy hats, horses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ironic or darkly humorous; themes: Western frontier, death and legacy, community gathering; style notes: black-and-white Western framing, medium shots focusing on character interaction, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio production

A street scene in a Western town shows a crowd gathered around a stagecoach, with two men in cowboy hats conversing nearby. The transcript mentions 'Captain City' and 'ghost town,' suggesting a thematic reference to a place associated with death or abandonment.

“Great for Captain City. Ghosts carried free to the ghost town. Captain City's a swell place to die.” 16:01 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 15:56 (passage 15:48–16:08); US record: No renewal found

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