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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 88 · permalink

Street

27:46–28:13 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5027:50Frame at 28:0428:04

Play from 27:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 168–169. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana around neck visible, audible
  • man in dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, visible beard visible
  • man in light cowboy hat, seen from back visible
  • group of men in cowboy hats, some on horseback, in background visible
Seen happening
  • Men gather on a dusty street in a Western town. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light hat speaks to others in a group. [frame:2]
Also said
“What's all the excitement about? They run the telegraph to Casson's city. Blair and Adams are hiring men to work there.” 28:06 · “What?” 28:12
Seen
cowboy hats, horses, wooden buildings, dusty street, bandana
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and opportunistic; themes: economic opportunity, frontier labor, community reaction to news; style notes: black-and-white Western framing, medium shots of groups, wide shot establishing town setting, natural daylight

A group of men in cowboy hats gathers on a dusty street in a Western town after hearing about job openings with the telegraph company. One man speaks about the opportunity to reach Crescent City for $10 a day, while others react with surprise.

“Then the telegraph company needs workers.” 27:53 · “First 50 of you to reach Crescent City. We'll get a job of $10 a day and keep.” 27:56 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 27:50 (passage 27:46–28:13); US record: No renewal found

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