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Water Rustlers · Beat 195 · permalink

Field

38:20–38:35 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2138:21Frame at 38:2638:26Frame at 38:3138:31Frame at 38:3438:34

Play from 38:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 341–344. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, vest, and bandana, visible on horseback visible
  • woman wearing cowboy hat and checkered shirt, visible on horseback visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, visible on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • A small plane flies through clouds. [frame:1]
  • Cattle run across a dusty field with snow-capped mountains in the background. [frame:2]
  • Riders on horseback herd cattle across the field. [frame:3]
  • Three people on horseback talk to each other in a desert setting. [frame:4]
Seen
{'item': 'small plane', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cattle', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'horses', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'checkered shirt', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and expansive; themes: frontier life, herding, aerial surveillance; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, dusty atmosphere, static framing

A plane flies over clouds, then cattle are herded across a dusty plain with snow-capped mountains in the background. Three people on horseback converse in a desert landscape.

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 38:21 (passage 38:20–38:35); US record: No renewal found

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