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Water Rustlers · Beat 189 · permalink

Private office

37:00–37:31 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:1637:16

Play from 37:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 115 · shots 335–335. 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 Western shirt and vest, holding hat, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark shirt, mid-adult, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, mid-adult, facing woman visible
  • woman in dark dress and scarf, mid-adult, standing center visible
  • Whalen (named at t:37:13): man in light shirt and tie, mid-adult, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stand in a circle discussing a plan to drive cattle through a pass. [frame:1]
Also said
“Once we get the herd moving, they'll never stop us.” 37:13 · “And when that's done, we'll give Whalen any kind of a fight he wants.” 37:13
Seen
cowboy hat, gun holster, patterned curtain or backdrop
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and strategic; themes: conflict planning, Western frontier, group strategy; style notes: studio-lit Western scene, medium group shot, static framing, period costumes

A group of people, including a woman and several men in Western attire, are gathered indoors discussing a plan to drive cattle through a pass and confront someone named Whalen. The scene is lit with studio lighting and appears to be a planning meeting in a Western-style setting.

“Now, first, we'll follow the original plan to assemble our cattle and drive them to water.” 37:13 · “They haven't enough men to keep us from driving the cattle through the pass.” 37:13 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 37:16 (passage 37:00–37:31); US record: No renewal found

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