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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 94 · permalink

Private office

29:53–30:17 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; 2 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 29:5729:57Frame at 30:0930:09

Play from 29:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 176–177. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Blair (named at t:29:54): man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and scarf; standing visible, audible
  • man wearing cowboy hat; seated at desk visible, audible
Also said
“It requires nerves, brains, and I think you're the man to set the bill.” 30:05 · “I want you to dive it through for me on my stage.” 30:15
Seen
desk, coat rack, cowboy hat, cowboy hat, scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: trust, opportunity, risk; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Two men in cowboy hats converse in an interior room; one offers the other a job transporting gold. The setting includes a desk and coat rack, suggesting an office or similar space.

“I got the hair to you, Blair.” 29:54 · “I sold you a lemon and you made an orange out of it.” 29:58 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 29:57 (passage 29:53–30:17); US record: No renewal found

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