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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 55 · permalink

Sidewalk

18:26–18:30 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 18:2818:28

Play from 18:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 105–105. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored pants and dark shirt, mid-struggle visible
  • man in light-colored suit, being bent over by p1 visible
  • group of men in hats and coats, standing and watching visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are wrestling on a sidewalk while others watch. [frame:1]
Seen
building with windows and door [frame:1], sidewalk [frame:1], hats and coats on onlookers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, public spectacle; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural daylight, static camera

Two men are engaged in a physical struggle outside a building while a group of onlookers watches. The scene is set during the day, as indicated by the lighting and outdoor setting.

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 18:28 (passage 18:26–18:30); US record: No renewal found

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