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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 69 · permalink

Town square

21:50–22:09 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5221:52Frame at 21:5721:57Frame at 22:0122:01Frame at 22:0622:06

Play from 21:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 127–130. 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
  • woman, wearing bonnet and full skirted dress, holding a child or bundle visible
  • woman, wearing bonnet and full skirted dress, embracing p1 visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and vest, walking away from camera visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and vest, standing with arms crossed visible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and vest, standing with hands on hips visible
  • Dan (named at t:21:53): man, wearing cowboy hat, facing p1 in close-up visible, audible
  • Barbara (named at t:21:50): woman, wearing bonnet, facing p6 in close-up visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a child or bundle near a wagon. [frame:1]
  • Two women embrace on a wooden sidewalk while a man walks away. [frame:2]
  • Three men in cowboy hats stand together outside a building. [frame:3]
  • A man and woman face each other closely in a close-up. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah.” 21:54 · “Oh, Dad, this awful place. How could you?” 21:59
Seen
wagon [frame:1], wooden sidewalk [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:3], bonnets [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: family conflict, Western frontier setting, emotional reunion or confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, outdoor daylight setting, period Western costumes

A woman in a bonnet and dress is seen near a wagon and then embraced by another woman on a wooden sidewalk; three men in cowboy hats stand together; a man and woman face each other closely. Dialogue includes calls of 'Barbara!' and 'Dan!' and a lament about 'this awful place.'

“Barbara!” 21:50 · “Dan!” 21:53 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 21:52 (passage 21:50–22:09); US record: No renewal found

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