Beat 2

0:00–0:14 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

0:05

0:11

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen: title card, title card
On screen: [{'text': "GRAND NATIONAL PICTURES, INC. PRESENTS Water Rustlers WITH DOROTHY PAGE DAVID O'BRIEN, VINCE BARNETT GEORGE A. HIRLIMAN, Executive Producer COPYRIGHT MCMXXXVIII by CORONADO FILMS INCORPORATED", 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Original Story LAWRENCE MEADE and DON LAURIE Screenplay ARTHUR HOERL', 'frame': 2}]
Interpretation: Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title cards with metallic texture and serif typography, typical of 1930s film credits; no camera movement or lighting effects.

The beat displays title cards for the 1938 film 'Water Rustlers,' listing cast and crew credits. No characters, actions, or settings are depicted beyond the text on screen.

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.

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Water Rustlers (1938) at 0:05 (passage 0:00–0:14); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/water_rustlers/b2.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/water_rustlers/b2"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/water_rustlers/0001.webp" alt="Frame from Water Rustlers (1938) at 0:05 (passage 0:00–0:14); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Water Rustlers (1938), 0:00–0:14. Internet Archive copy water_rustlers; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Water Rustlers (1938), 0:00–0:14", https://publicreel.org/moment/water_rustlers/b2, from Internet Archive item water_rustlers, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Beat 2

Evidence and details

The record

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