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Water Rustlers · Beat 180 · permalink

Private office

34:49–34:56 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 34:5334:53

Play from 34:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 320–320. 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 shirt and pants, seated, hand to face visible
  • man in light shirt and tie, standing, hands on hips visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing, back to camera visible
Seen
desk, hat hanging on wall, mounted fish on wall, lamp on desk, box on desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: western, confrontation, team formation; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, western-themed set dressing

Three men are in a room with western decor; one speaks to two others, calling them 'battlers'. No names are given in the dialogue, and no time of day or period is established.

“You two battlers are going to be a great help.” 34:52 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 34:53 (passage 34:49–34:56); US record: No renewal found

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