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Water Rustlers · Beat 196 · permalink

Mountain

38:35–39:14 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:3938:39Frame at 38:5238:52Frame at 38:5938:59Frame at 39:1139:11

Play from 38:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 345–354. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Cattle are seen moving across a dusty plain with snow-capped mountains in the background. [frame:1]
  • Cattle are partially obscured by dust and mist as they move through rocky terrain. [frame:2]
  • Cattle continue moving through heavy dust, with one animal's head visible in the foreground. [frame:3]
  • The herd is seen from a distance, with dust rising against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains. [frame:4]
Seen
cattle [frame:1], mountains [frame:1], dust [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: herding, wilderness, movement; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black and white, dust effects, static camera

A herd of cattle moves through a dusty, mountainous landscape under bright daylight. A voice urges action with the word 'Come on!' at 38:42.

“Come on!” 38:42 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 38:39 (passage 38:35–39:14); US record: No renewal found

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