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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 9 · permalink

Sidewalk

4:18–5:00 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 4:254:25Frame at 4:414:41Frame at 4:554:55

Play from 4:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 5 · shots 20–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, and belt; medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing dark hat, dark jacket, light pants; medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The men walk away from the camera toward horses and a fence. [frame:3]
Also said
“We're gonna start a stage line.” 4:35 · “Suits me, partner. And we'll pick out four good stagecoach horses. We'll head for Buchanan City. We may be able to get a stage there.” 4:45
Seen
cowboy hats, horses, wooden fence, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: pragmatic and collaborative; themes: partnership, entrepreneurship, Western frontier; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period Western costume, static framing

Two men in cowboy attire discuss starting a stage line and acquiring horses, walking outdoors near trees and a fence. They mention heading to Buchanan City to get a stagecoach.

“Two thoroughbreds each. Well, that's a real gift. Yeah, let's go ahead and pick them up.” 4:18 · “What are you going to do with your horses? Sell them. Oh, no, you're not. I got a better idea. Yeah.” 4:28 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 4:25 (passage 4:18–5:00); US record: No renewal found

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