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Water Rustlers · Beat 147 · permalink

Private office

29:06–29:33 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; 4 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 29:1929:19

Play from 29:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 258–258. 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, mid-30s, lean build, wearing a light shirt and neckerchief, seated visible
  • woman, 30s-40s, blonde, wearing a dark vest over a light blouse, seated at table visible
  • man, balding, heavyset, wearing a light shirt, leaning over table visible
  • man, 40s-50s, wearing a light shirt and tie, seated, facing p3 visible
Also said
“You mean someone in a big truck is tearing up our fences? That's just what I told you in too many words. Yes.” 29:21 · “Your Honour?” 29:27
Seen
cowboy hat, table, papers, wooden wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: property dispute, legal confrontation, ranch conflict; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, focused on group interaction

A group of four people, including a woman and three men, are gathered around a table in a wooden-paneled room, discussing damage to fences caused by a truck. One man addresses someone as 'Your Honour,' suggesting a legal or authoritative context.

“Excuse me, Mr. I must go say something.” 29:07 · “The fences are on the way. I don't understand. The fences, she go pfff. On the front of the fences is a big truck. She pull them ahead from and back.” 29:13 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 29:19 (passage 29:06–29:33); US record: No renewal found

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