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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 66 · permalink

Wooden building exterior

21:30–21:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3221:32

Play from 21:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 124–124. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
wooden building with porch and railing [frame:1], barrels or crates on ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still and desolate; themes: Western setting, abandoned or quiet location; style notes: static wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, low detail due to film age

A single frame shows the exterior of a wooden building with a porch and railing, likely a saloon or general store in a Western setting. No people or movement are visible in the frame.

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 21:32 (passage 21:30–21:35); US record: No renewal found

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