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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 64 · permalink

Town square

20:47–21:13 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 20:5320:53Frame at 21:0221:02Frame at 21:0921:09

Play from 20:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 120–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and light shirt, writing on a chalkboard visible
  • man wearing a light hat and vest, standing visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and light shirt, standing beside p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man writes on a chalkboard inside a building. [frame:1]
  • A stagecoach approaches down a dusty street. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand inside watching another write on a chalkboard. [frame:3]
Seen
chalkboard, stagecoach, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: Western frontier, community gathering, arrival of news or transport; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, period Western setting

A man writes on a chalkboard inside a building while two other men stand nearby; outside, a stagecoach approaches down a dusty street. The transcript mentions the stage and a character named English John.

“Here comes the stage, English John's got a bastard.” 20:52 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 20:53 (passage 20:47–21:13); US record: No renewal found

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