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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 73 · permalink

Town square

23:42–24:13 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4523:45Frame at 23:5823:58Frame at 24:1124:11

Play from 23:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 36 · shots 139–141. 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:1
People
  • man in dark hat and jacket, facing woman visible
  • woman in bonnet and shawl, facing man visible
  • man holding a child, wearing light shirt and dark hat visible
  • child wrapped in cloth, held by p3 visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, standing in background visible
  • woman in bonnet and shawl, seen from back visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing near p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand facing each other outside a building. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a child while others stand around him. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light shirt stands facing a woman in a bonnet. [frame:3]
Also said
“We're looking for a place to settle.” 23:53 · “You can't beat this town. We've got fresh eggs.” 24:00
Seen
window with panes, child wrapped in cloth, hats worn by multiple people, wooden building facade
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, conversational; themes: travel, community, childcare, settlement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, period costumes

Two people converse outside a building while others gather nearby; one person carries a child. A man offers to help the child in his office, and another mentions amenities of the town.

“I don't think I need your advice.” 23:45 · “The child needs a rest.” 23:48 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 23:45 (passage 23:42–24:13); US record: No renewal found

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