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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 92 · permalink

Street

29:21–29:45 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3129:31Frame at 29:4229:42

Play from 29:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 173–174. 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 cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, belt with buckle visible
  • man in cowboy hat, dark coat, holding a bundle visible
  • Mr. Blair (named at t:29:38): man in dark suit, top hat, walking visible
  • Mr. Drake (named at t:29:31): man in cowboy hat, dark vest, standing near p1 visible
Also said
“Go to Crescent City, Mr. Drake.” 29:31 · “I'd like to see you in my office, Mr. Blair.” 29:38
Seen
cowboy hats, covered wagon, top hat, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight, Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats stand on a dusty street; one is addressed as Mr. Drake and told to go to Crescent City. Another man in a suit walks past a covered wagon while being told to come to an office, addressed as Mr. Blair.

“You gonna let him get away with it?” 29:23 · “No.” 29:26 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 29:31 (passage 29:21–29:45); US record: No renewal found

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