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Water Rustlers · Beat 220 · permalink

Field

44:58–45:06 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:0245:02

Play from 44:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 395–395. 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
  • rider on dark horse, wearing hat and coat visible
  • rider on light horse, wearing hat and coat visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback move across a dry field with mountains behind them. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], horse [frame:1], mountains [frame:1], brush [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: open and desolate; themes: western, journey, isolation; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural lighting, distant framing

Two riders on horseback move across an open, arid landscape with mountains in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 45:02 (passage 44:58–45:06); US record: No renewal found

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