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Water Rustlers · Beat 183 · permalink

Living room

35:08–35:38 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1135:11Frame at 35:1535:15Frame at 35:2835:28

Play from 35:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 111 · shots 323–325. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man, light shirt, neckerchief, holding stringed instrument visible
  • man, balding, striped shirt, seated at table visible
  • woman, dark dress, belt, standing near fireplace visible
Seen happening
  • A man plays a stringed instrument while seated. [frame:1]
  • A man sits at a table with papers and a lamp. [frame:2]
  • A woman stands near a fireplace while a man plays an instrument. [frame:3]
Seen
stringed instrument [frame:1], plaid sofa [frame:3], fireplace [frame:3], table with papers and lamp [frame:2], curtains with pattern [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and contemplative; themes: romance, domestic life, musical performance; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, rustic interior set design

A man plays a stringed instrument while seated; another man sits at a table; a woman stands near a fireplace in a room with rustic decor. The transcript includes a romantic spoken line about continuing life together.

“Let's go on like this forever and forever. Our life would always be like a heavenly song. Let's go on like this and face the world together.” 35:09 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 35:11 (passage 35:08–35:38); US record: No renewal found

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