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Water Rustlers · Beat 184 · permalink

Living room

35:38–36:04 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:4135:41Frame at 35:5435:54

Play from 35:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 111 · shots 326–327. 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:1, frame:2
People
  • balding man with beard, wearing a patterned shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man with short hair, wearing light shirt and pants, seated in chair holding guitar visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark dress with belt, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a table with food, smiling with hands under his chin. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands near a couch while another man sits in a chair holding a guitar. [frame:2]
Also said
“If you believed in me, we would come smiling through.” 35:53
Seen
table with bowls and plates, plaid couch, guitar, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: domestic and conversational; themes: domestic life, optimism, musical performance; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, staged interior set

A man sits at a table with food, smiling with hands under his chin. A woman stands near a couch while another man sits in a chair holding a guitar. The transcript includes lines about belief and optimism.

“We could never go wrong.” 35:39 · “Although the sky may not always be blue.” 35:45 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 35:41 (passage 35:38–36:04); US record: No renewal found

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