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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 85 · permalink

Forest

26:40–26:55 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4726:47

Play from 26:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 164–164. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing, holding a pistol at his side visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing beside p1 visible
  • man seated on ground, wearing a patterned shirt, head down visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, kneeling over p3, holding a long object visible
  • man in dark shirt, seated behind p3, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men gather around a person lying on the ground near a horse and a tripod. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], tripod [frame:1], pistol [frame:1], long object (possibly a rifle or tool) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor peril, group dynamics; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, Western genre framing

A group of men in 1930s Western attire are gathered outdoors around a fallen person near a horse and a tripod. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 26:47 (passage 26:40–26:55); US record: No renewal found

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