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36:26–36:35 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 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3136:31

Play from 36:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 330–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • balding man with a mustache, wearing a plaid shirt, seated at a table visible
Seen
plate of food [frame:1], table [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static medium shot, black and white, low-key lighting, focused on the subject's face and upper body

A man sits at a table with his chin resting on his hands, looking at the camera. A plate of food is in front of him, and the setting appears to be an interior space with dim lighting.

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 36:31 (passage 36:26–36:35); US record: No renewal found

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