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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 58 · permalink

Post office

18:35–18:46 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3918:39Frame at 18:4318:43Frame at 18:4518:45

Play from 18:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 108–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
post_office (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light-colored pants and shirt, being thrown to the ground visible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, grappling with p1 visible
  • man with dark hair and dark shirt, standing near a sign visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are grappling near a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near a sign reading 'U.S. POST'. [frame:2]
  • One man is thrown to the ground. [frame:3]
Seen
U.S. POST sign, wooden building, hat on ground
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, physical struggle; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting

Two men are shown in a physical struggle near a wooden building; one man is thrown to the ground. A third man is visible in a separate shot, standing near a sign that reads 'U.S. POST'.

“I got enough.” 18:39 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 18:39 (passage 18:35–18:46); US record: No renewal found

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