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Water Rustlers · Beat 188 · permalink

Living room

36:35–37:00 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3936:39Frame at 36:4536:45Frame at 36:5236:52Frame at 36:5836:58

Play from 36:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 331–334. 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:2
People
  • bald man, mustache, wearing a striped shirt, holding a cloth visible
  • woman, blonde, wearing a dark belted dress, standing visible
  • man, wearing a light shirt and dark pants, standing near a desk visible
  • man, wearing a vest and light pants, holding a guitar visible
  • man, wearing a vest and holding a hat visible
  • man, wearing a vest, standing near p5 visible
Seen happening
  • A bald man holds a cloth while seated at a table with plates. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands near a man holding a guitar in a living room with plaid furniture. [frame:2]
  • A man stands near a desk and lamp in a wood-paneled room. [frame:3]
  • Several men and a woman stand together in a room with wooden furniture and a rug. [frame:4]
Seen
guitar [frame:2], plaid sofa [frame:2], wooden desk [frame:3], lamp [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:4], rug [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: ranch conflict, group meeting, post-disaster planning; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, interior lighting with shadows

A man in a shirt is seen in a wood-paneled room with others, including a woman in a dark dress and men in vests; one man holds a guitar. The transcript mentions a meeting to discuss a plan after ranch buildings were blown up.

“good evening i asked you to call here tonight to discuss a plan of action i missed some of you in court today and he told me what happened that your buildings had been blown up and your ranch houses” 36:42 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 36:39 (passage 36:35–37:00); US record: No renewal found

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