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Water Rustlers · Beat 130 · permalink

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24:56–25:14 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 25:0125:01Frame at 25:1025:10

Play from 24:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 223–224. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, light hair, wearing a button-up shirt and neckerchief visible
  • person visible on porch, indistinct clothing visible
Also said
“Maybe we could see Miss Shirley. She'll be out in a minute.” 25:10
Seen
porch with wooden posts and railing, neckerchief, button-up shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, waiting, social hierarchy; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on man, wide shot of building with porch, natural lighting

A man in a shirt and neckerchief stands in front of a building with a porch; another person is visible on the porch. The transcript mentions Mr. Martin, Mike, and Miss Shirley in a conversation about a meeting.

“Mr. Martin, him very bad work. There's no good time for two-god meetings.” 25:04 · “I know, Mike.” 25:09 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 25:01 (passage 24:56–25:14); US record: No renewal found

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