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Water Rustlers · Beat 133 · permalink

Stone-walled interior

26:02–26:05 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 26:0426:04

Play from 26:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 231–231. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone-walled interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark shirt, gun belt, and hat; seen from back visible
  • man wearing a light-colored hat and vest; seen in profile visible
Seen
gun belt [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, Western genre framing

Two men in Western attire stand near a doorway in a stone-walled interior; one faces away, the other is seen in profile. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 26:04 (passage 26:02–26:05); US record: No renewal found

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