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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 81 · permalink

Field

25:38–25:45 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 25:3925:39Frame at 25:4225:42Frame at 25:4425:44

Play from 25:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 152–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and belt with holster visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, holding a cup near tall grass visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near tall grass holding a cup. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat smiles while holding reins. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat holds a cup near tall grass. [frame:3]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:2], cup [frame:3], reins [frame:2], tall grass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: warning, outdoor peril, western; style notes: black and white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a cowboy hat is seen outdoors near tall grass; another man warns him not to drink the water. The scene is shot in black and white with natural lighting.

“Hey!” 25:39 · “Don't drink that water!” 25:41 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 25:39 (passage 25:38–25:45); US record: No renewal found

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