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Water Rustlers · Beat 114 · permalink

Field

23:56–23:58 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:5723:57

Play from 23:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 206–206. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing plaid shirt and light-colored cowboy hat, crouching behind fence, holding rifle visible
  • man wearing light shirt, crouching behind fence, holding rifle visible
  • man wearing dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, standing above fence, holding pistol visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are positioned behind a wooden fence with firearms drawn. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden fence [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], pistol [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western standoff; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men aim rifles from behind a wooden fence while a third man stands above them pointing a pistol. The scene is set outdoors near a rocky outcrop.

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 23:57 (passage 23:56–23:58); US record: No renewal found

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