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Water Rustlers · Beat 178 · permalink

Private office

34:40–34:45 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:4034:40Frame at 34:4334:43

Play from 34:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 317–318. 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-adult, wearing a light shirt, tie, and trousers, standing behind a desk visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light shirt and trousers, seated, with a gun belt, holding his face with one hand visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands behind a desk in a wood-paneled room. [frame:1]
  • A man sits in a chair, holding his face with one hand. [frame:2]
Seen
{'item': 'wood-paneled wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'desk', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'hat hanging on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': "gun belt on man's hip", 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'chair', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or contemplative; themes: confrontation, western office setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1930s studio interiors

A man in a shirt and tie stands behind a desk in a wood-paneled room; another man in a shirt and trousers sits in a chair, holding his face. The transcript contains only the word 'Yeah.'

“Yeah.” 34:40 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 34:40 (passage 34:40–34:45); US record: No renewal found

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