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Water Rustlers · Beat 214 · permalink

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43:19–43:44 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:2343:23Frame at 43:3643:36

Play from 43:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 132 · shots 385–386. 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
  • woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, and dark pants visible
  • Mr. Whelan (named at t:43:21): man wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and tie, with a holster visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand facing each other near horses. [frame:1]
  • The woman mounts a horse while the man remains standing beside another horse. [frame:2]
Also said
“Maybe you'll soon find out what's really on his mind.” 43:24 · “Well, we can start figuring it out on our ride.” 43:27
Seen
horses [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], holster [frame:1], saddle [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: confrontation, journey as revelation, Western frontier dynamics; style notes: classic Western framing with medium shots, high-contrast lighting, and outdoor natural setting

Two people in Western attire stand near horses in an outdoor setting; one mounts a horse as they prepare to ride. Dialogue suggests tension involving a character named Mr. Whelan and an upcoming ride to uncover his intentions.

“What do you think about that?” 43:19 · “Maybe you're getting under Mr. Whelan's skin.” 43:21 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 43:23 (passage 43:19–43:44); US record: No renewal found

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