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Water Rustlers · Beat 194 · permalink

Field

37:59–38:20 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:1038:10

Play from 37:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 340–340. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, wearing a hat and riding gear, on horseback visible
  • adult male, wearing a hat and riding gear, on horseback, further back visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback are herding a large herd of cattle across a dusty field. [frame:1]
Seen
cattle [frame:1], horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], riding gear [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, rustic; themes: cattle herding, western landscape, rural labor; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, dusty atmosphere

A herd of cattle is being herded across a dusty, brushy landscape by two riders on horseback. The scene is shot in black and white and appears to be outdoors in a rural, arid setting.

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 38:10 (passage 37:59–38:20); US record: No renewal found

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