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Water Rustlers · Beat 131 · permalink

Private office

25:14–25:32 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 25:1825:18Frame at 25:2425:24Frame at 25:2825:28

Play from 25:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 225–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • Bob Lawson (named at t:25:19): man in cowboy hat and vest, holding a rope, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing left, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing right, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a shirt and necktie, visible in frame 3 visible
Also said
“The boys are ready to band together with the Range Riders and hunt down this bunch.” 25:24 · “We shouldn't do that, Andy.” 25:24
Seen
{'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'leather belts with holsters', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'rope', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wooden door frame', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'shirt with necktie', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: Western frontier, group decision-making, concern for injured party; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period Western costume

Four men in cowboy attire converse in a wooden interior while a woman in a shirt and necktie appears in a separate shot. The transcript mentions Tim's condition, introduces Bob Lawson, and discusses a planned hunt with the Range Riders.

“How's Tim? I'm afraid he's pretty bad.” 25:15 · “Boys, this is Bob Lawson, Tim's new former. Glad to know you.” 25:19 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 25:18 (passage 25:14–25:32); US record: No renewal found

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