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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 6 · permalink

Street

3:13–3:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 3:173:17Frame at 3:233:23Frame at 3:283:28Frame at 3:333:33

Play from 3:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 9–13. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, checkered shirt, and light jacket visible
  • Johnny Blair (named at t:3:13): man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, seen in profile visible, audible
  • person riding a white horse, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a white horse away from a building. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat, checkered shirt, white horse, striped awning
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: urgency, western frontier, individual resolve; style notes: medium close-ups on faces, high-contrast lighting, abrupt cut to wide shot of horse departure

Two men in cowboy hats converse outdoors; one is named Johnny Blair per dialogue. A horse is ridden away from a building with a striped awning. No names are assigned to visible persons beyond what dialogue establishes.

“What's Johnny Blair gonna do? I don't know, but he won't starve. He's been saving his nickels.” 3:13 · “He's still here in 10 seconds. He'll be here in... Hurry, come now!” 3:19 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 3:17 (passage 3:13–3:36); US record: No renewal found

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