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Water Rustlers · Beat 110 · permalink

Desert

23:37–23:45 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:3923:39Frame at 23:4323:43

Play from 23:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • cowboy hat, plaid shirt, seated, holding rifle visible
  • cowboy hat, light shirt, standing, holding rifle visible
  • cowboy hat, dark shirt, standing, hands on hips visible
Seen happening
  • A man seated with a rifle is visible in the desert. [frame:2]
  • Two standing men in cowboy hats are visible, one holding a rifle. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], rifles [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western standoff, preparedness; style notes: wide shot establishing location, medium shot focusing on armed men, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Three men in cowboy hats are positioned in a desert landscape with horses and a wagon; one man is seated with a rifle while two others stand holding rifles. A voice instructs them to get under cover and shoot when something approaches.

“Get out and get under cover. When it comes through, let them have it.” 23:40 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 Water Rustlers (1938) at 23:39 (passage 23:37–23:45); US record: No renewal found

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