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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 82 · permalink

Field

25:45–26:16 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4725:47Frame at 25:5625:56Frame at 26:0326:03Frame at 26:1326:13

Play from 25:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 155–160. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark coat, visible drinking from canteen in frame:1, later facing p2 in frame:3 and frame:4 visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark coat, visible on horseback approaching in frame:2, then standing face-to-face with p1 in frame:3 and frame:4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man drinks from a canteen while crouched in brush. [frame:1]
  • A man on horseback approaches another man standing in a field. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand face-to-face in conversation. [frame:3]
  • Two men continue to face each other in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Then that's what ails my men.” 26:13
Seen
canteen [frame:1], horse [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], brush / tall grass [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious and urgent; themes: poison, suspicion, illness, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

Two men in cowboy hats are in a brushy outdoor area; one is seen drinking from a canteen while the other approaches on horseback. They converse as the transcript reveals suspicion of poison in water, which they believe is causing illness among their men.

“what's the matter with you will you creepy had to keep him drinking that water it's poison” 25:46 · “Somebody must have knocked his sign over. Poison! Yeah, it's deadly.” 26:03 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 25:47 (passage 25:45–26:16); US record: No renewal found

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