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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 8 · permalink

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3:58–4:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 4:014:01Frame at 4:074:07Frame at 4:144:14

Play from 3:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 17–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in vest and hat, standing left, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, center, facing right visible
  • man in light coat and hat, center-right, facing left visible
  • Mr. Dodge (named at t:4:07): man in light coat and wide-brimmed hat, right, speaking visible, audible
  • man in dark hat and coat, partially visible behind p3 visible
Also said
“Two thoroughbreds each. Well, that's a real gift. Yeah, let's go ahead and pick them up.” 4:18
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], vest [frame:1], suits and coats [frame:2], wooden structure interior [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and appreciative; themes: gratitude, reward, Western frontier; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting, Western costume design

A group of men in cowboy hats are addressed by a man who announces a gift of two pony express horses for each of them. The men respond with thanks and express intent to go to the corrals to pick the horses.

“In appreciation of your loyalty, the company is giving each of you a gift. Two pony express horses, toughest and fastest in the country.” 3:59 · “Thanks, boss. Just go down to the corrals and pick out the ones you want. Best of luck to you, boys. Thanks. Thanks, Mr. Dodge.” 4:07 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 4:01 (passage 3:58–4:18); US record: No renewal found

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