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Water Rustlers · Beat 168 · permalink

Private office

32:45–32:48 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 32:4732:47

Play from 32:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 300–300. 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 dark suit, patterned tie, dark hair, medium build, smiling visible
  • man in dark suit, patterned tie, balding, glasses, heavier build, smiling visible
Seen
{'item': 'desk', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'papers', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'inkwells', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'suits and ties', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to amicable; themes: professional interaction, mid-century office setting; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static composition

Two men in suits sit at a desk with papers and inkwells, smiling at each other. The setting appears to be an interior office space with no visible windows or time indicators.

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 32:47 (passage 32:45–32:48); US record: No renewal found

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