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Water Rustlers · Beat 212 · permalink

Sidewalk

42:23–43:07 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 42:2942:29Frame at 42:5142:51

Play from 42:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 382–383. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Miss Martin (named at t:42:35): woman, wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, standing near car visible, audible
  • man, balding, wearing glasses and dark suit, holding hat visible, audible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing near horse visible
Also said
“It isn't for sale.” 42:59 · “Now or ever.” 43:00
Seen
{'item': 'car', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'horse', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'suit', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'glasses', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: property rights, negotiation, rural land ownership; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period Western costume

A man in a suit offers to buy land from a woman in a cowboy hat; she refuses. Two men in cowboy hats stand nearby as a car and horse are visible.

“Miss Martin. Yes, I've come with an offer for your land.” 42:35 · “Why, it's worth four times that much.” 42:44 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 42:29 (passage 42:23–43:07); US record: No renewal found

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