Public Reel

Water Rustlers · Beat 100 · permalink

Forest

22:27–22:32 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 22:2922:29

Play from 22:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 191–191. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure sitting on elevated wooden structure, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • silhouetted figure standing near tree, dark clothing visible
  • silhouetted figure crouching near ground, dark clothing visible
Seen
wooden structure [frame:1], tree [frame:1], barrel or bucket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: outdoor confrontation, rural setting, nocturnal activity; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, silhouetted figures, static wide shot

A dimly lit outdoor scene shows several figures near a wooden structure under trees; one person sits elevated on the structure. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Water Rustlers (1938) at 22:29 (passage 22:27–22:32); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/water_rustlers/b100.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite