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42:17–42:23 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2042:20

Play from 42:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 381–381. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark shirt, neckerchief, and belt with holster visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light blouse, and vest visible
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], necktie/kerchief [frame:1], belt with holster [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious; themes: Western, mystery, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

A man and a woman in Western attire stand side by side, looking off-camera. The man speaks, wondering about something unseen.

“I wonder what that can be.” 42:18 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 42:20 (passage 42:17–42:23); US record: No renewal found

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