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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 89 · permalink

Outdoor setting

28:13–28:47 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:3028:30

Play from 28:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 44 · shots 170–170. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor setting (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana; smiling visible
  • man wearing dark wide-brimmed hat, dark coat, belt; seated, looking at p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in Western attire are seated and conversing outdoors. [frame:1]
Also said
“And when we get that mail contract, we'll put Crescent City on the map again. Right.” 28:28 · “Ha! Not for me, boys! Come on, enter! Come on, enter! Come on, get a gate off!” 28:34
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], bandana [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], belt [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: determined and conversational; themes: Western frontier, community revival, telegraph and mail contracts; style notes: black-and-white Western framing, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting

Two men in Western attire converse outdoors; one mentions heading to Crescent City and securing a mail contract to revive it. One man urges others to enter, suggesting a group is nearby.

“That beats 10 and 2 bucks worth of go today. Now I'm heading for Crescent City.” 28:13 · “Well, that's our first step.” 28:24 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 28:30 (passage 28:13–28:47); US record: No renewal found

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