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Water Rustlers · Beat 163 · permalink

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32:01–32:03 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 7 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 32:0232:02

Play from 32:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 290–290. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior)
People
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light shirt visible
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket visible
  • man, older, balding, wearing a light shirt visible
  • woman, younger, dark hair, wearing a light blouse visible
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket visible
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark top visible
  • man, older, gray hair, wearing a light shirt visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: group tension, suspense; style notes: medium group shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A group of people is gathered indoors, looking in the same direction with serious expressions. 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 32:02 (passage 32:01–32:03); US record: No renewal found

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