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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 72 · permalink

Private office

23:22–23:42 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2523:25Frame at 23:3323:33Frame at 23:4023:40

Play from 23:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 136–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and vest, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman wearing bonnet and shawl, mid-adult, slight build visible, audible
Also said
“in this awful place.” 23:35 · “If you had the right spirits, you'd stay here and help him.” 23:36
Seen
cowboy hat, bonnet, shawl, wooden wall with window panes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: duty, failure, place and identity; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing typical of 1930s Westerns

Two people in period Western attire converse indoors; one speaks about another man's loss of confidence and failure. The dialogue suggests a conflict over whether to stay in the town or return east.

“I'd like to speak to you about your father.” 23:23 · “He put everything he had into this town.” 23:28 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 23:25 (passage 23:22–23:42); US record: No renewal found

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