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Water Rustlers · Beat 172 · permalink

Private office

33:57–34:01 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 33:5933:59

Play from 33:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 311–311. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying on desk, wearing light shirt and cowboy hat visible
  • man standing, wearing dark coat and cowboy hat, back to camera visible
  • man standing, wearing light shirt and dark pants, facing p1 and p2 visible
Seen
desk [frame:1], patterned rug on wall [frame:1], mounted cowboy hats [frame:1], gun holster on p2's hip [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western genre tropes; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s westerns

A man in a cowboy hat lies on a desk while another man in a dark coat stands over him; a third man stands nearby. The room contains western-style decor including a patterned rug and mounted hats.

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 33:59 (passage 33:57–34:01); US record: No renewal found

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