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Water Rustlers · Beat 181 · permalink

Private office

34:56–34:58 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 34:5734:57

Play from 34:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 321–321. 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, leaning over desk, head down visible
  • man in light shirt and tie, standing upright, hands on hips visible
  • man in light shirt and tie, standing upright, looking at p2 visible
Seen
desk [frame:1], mounted animal head [frame:1], hat hanging on wall [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1], patterned wall hanging [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, western office setting; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Three men stand around a desk in a room with a brick wall and mounted animal head. One man leans over the desk while the other two stand upright, one with hands on hips.

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 34:57 (passage 34:56–34:58); US record: No renewal found

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