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Water Rustlers · Beat 197 · permalink

Mountain

39:14–39:36 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 name 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 39:1639:16Frame at 39:2339:23Frame at 39:2739:27Frame at 39:3439:34

Play from 39:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 355–360. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • rider on horseback, wearing a hat, visible as a small figure in the distance visible
Seen happening
  • cattle are running across a dusty, rocky terrain [frame:1]
  • cattle continue moving through a rocky landscape with large boulders [frame:2]
  • cattle kick up dust as they move through the rocky area [frame:3]
  • a lone rider on horseback follows the herd against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains [frame:4]
Seen
cattle [frame:1], horse [frame:4], rock formations [frame:2], snow-capped mountains [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dynamic and expansive; themes: herding, western landscape, solitude; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black and white, dust effects, distant figures against vast landscape

A herd of cattle moves through a rocky, mountainous landscape, kicking up dust. A lone rider on horseback follows the herd in the distance against a backdrop of snow-capped peaks.

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 39:16 (passage 39:14–39:36); US record: No renewal found

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