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Winds of the Wasteland · Beat 99 · permalink

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31:21–31:48 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:3531:35

Play from 31:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 186–186. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light cowboy hat, white shirt, dark vest, patterned neckerchief visible, audible
  • Murray (named at t:31:21): man in dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, dark neckerchief visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand facing each other near a stagecoach, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • It is mentioned that Blair will be escorted to Sacramento and will take care of his partner on the return trip. [t:31:40]
Also said
“No, you've got to drive the stage back to Crescent City. I'll be all right. Keep your eyes open.” 31:33 · “While the boys are escorting Blair to Sacramento, he'll take care of his partner. He'll be starting back across the city.” 31:40
Seen
cowboy hats, stagecoach (partial), vest, neckerchiefs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: duty, trust, financial pressure, Western frontier travel; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns, focused on character interaction

Two men in cowboy hats converse near a stagecoach; one insists the other must drive the stage back to Crescent City while he goes alone. The dialogue references a mail race, a thousand-dollar payment, and a character named Blair being escorted to Sacramento.

“I wouldn't do it, John. He's got some trick up his sleeve. I know it, Murray.” 31:21 · “We need that thousand dollars to pay on our franchise.” 31:27 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 31:35 (passage 31:21–31:48); US record: No renewal found

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