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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 70 · permalink

Town square

22:09–22:32 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; 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 22:1522:15Frame at 22:2422:24Frame at 22:3022:30

Play from 22:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 131–133. 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:3
People
  • man, older, wearing light shirt and suspenders, hat visible, audible
  • man, older, wearing dark shirt and vest, wide-brimmed hat visible
  • woman, younger, wearing dark coat and hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A stagecoach is visible on a dusty street with wooden buildings. [frame:3]
Also said
“Let's leave it once, Dad. You don't belong here.” 22:20 · “I can't do that.” 22:26
Seen
stagecoach [frame:3], wooden buildings [frame:3], horses [frame:3], hats [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: belonging, conflict over place, Western frontier life; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups for dialogue, wide shot for setting; naturalistic lighting

Two men and a woman speak in a Western town setting; one man says he cannot leave because everything he has is there. A stagecoach is visible on a dusty street with wooden buildings.

“What's she going on about?” 22:10 · “That stagecoach would jolt anybody.” 22:15 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 22:15 (passage 22:09–22:32); US record: No renewal found

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