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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 41 · permalink

Street

16:08–16:49 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:1316:13Frame at 16:2616:26Frame at 16:4016:40Frame at 16:4716:47

Play from 16:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 87–90. 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 wide-brimmed light hat, dark vest, shirt, tie visible, audible
  • Blair (named at t:16:18): man in dark high-crowned hat, dark coat, high collar visible, audible
  • man in dark hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
  • man in light shirt, seen from back or side visible
Seen happening
  • p1 and p2 stand facing each other on a street, talking. [frame:1]
  • p2 speaks to p4 near a doorway. [frame:2]
  • p2 and p4 continue talking near the doorway. [frame:3]
  • p2 leans toward p4, who is turned away. [frame:4]
Also said
“I want to enter my stagecoach in that mail race. Good. Good.” 16:31 · “I was beginning to think that there wouldn't be anybody in it but Drake. It seems to me there'd be plenty of coaches in there for $25,000. That's what I figured. But something is scaring them out. Come on inside and sign up.” 16:35
Seen
stagecoach [frame:1], sign with partial text 'CENT...TY...G' [frame:1], doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: competition, risk, business opportunity; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period Western costume

Two men in hats talk outside a building; one invites the other inside to sign up for a mail race. The transcript mentions a $25,000 prize and that others are scared to enter.

“I didn't know school let out so early.” 16:11 · “Well, Blair, how's it going? It's fine. It'll be a lot better after I land that mail contract.” 16:18 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 16:13 (passage 16:08–16:49); US record: No renewal found

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