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Water Rustlers · Beat 217 · permalink

Desert

44:22–44:45 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 44:2444:24Frame at 44:2944:29Frame at 44:3844:38

Play from 44:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 134 · shots 390–392. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored shirt, light hat, and dark pants, seated on a dark horse visible
  • man wearing a dark shirt, dark hat, and dark pants, seated on a pinto horse visible
Seen
horse [frame:1], horse [frame:1], hat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], mountains [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: western, outdoor setting, character interaction; style notes: wide shots establish setting; medium shot frames two characters in conversation; black-and-white with high contrast lighting

Two men on horseback are shown in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. One man, wearing a light shirt and hat, sits on a dark horse; the other, in a dark shirt and hat, sits on a pinto horse and faces him.

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 44:24 (passage 44:22–44:45); US record: No renewal found

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