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Water Rustlers · Beat 127 · permalink

Desert

24:38–24:41 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 24:3924:39Frame at 24:4124:41

Play from 24:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 219–220. 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
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, seated in front of vehicle, holding reins visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing in back of vehicle, holding rifle visible
  • Bob (named at t:24:39): man in cowboy hat, seated in back of vehicle, holding a rifle, looking toward p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in the back of a vehicle holds a rifle while another man sits in front holding reins. [frame:1]
  • The man in the back turns his head toward the front as the vehicle moves. [frame:2]
Seen
horse-drawn wagon [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: Western, injury, transportation; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, Western genre framing

Three men in cowboy hats are in a vehicle in a desert; one is seated in the back holding a rifle while another speaks. A line of dialogue instructs someone named Bob to take a person to the doctor.

“Bob, right to the doctor. Get him home.” 24:39 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 24:39 (passage 24:38–24:41); US record: No renewal found

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