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Water Rustlers · Beat 198 · permalink

Field

39:36–40:04 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 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3939:39Frame at 39:4439:44Frame at 39:5039:50Frame at 40:0040:00

Play from 39:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 361–364. 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
  • person on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
Seen happening
  • A rider on horseback moves through a dusty field with cattle. [frame:1]
  • The rider continues herding cattle, kicking up dust. [frame:2]
  • Cattle run past large rocks in a dusty environment. [frame:3]
  • Cattle move past a large rock formation in low light. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cattle [frame:1], airplane [frame:1], rocks [frame:3], dust [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and dynamic; themes: herding, outdoor action, rural landscape; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black-and-white, dusty atmosphere, natural lighting

A rider on horseback herds cattle through a dusty, rocky landscape with mountains in the background; an airplane flies overhead. The scene is outdoors in daylight, with no interior spaces or named individuals visible or mentioned.

“Come on.” 39:42 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 39:39 (passage 39:36–40:04); US record: No renewal found

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