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Water Rustlers · Beat 223 · permalink

Mountainous desert

45:45–45:54 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5045:50

Play from 45:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 400–400. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountainous desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figure on horseback, wearing dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
  • figure on horseback, wearing lighter clothing, visible from a distance visible
Seen happening
  • Two people on horseback ride across a desert landscape. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], mountains [frame:1], scrub vegetation [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: isolated and expansive; themes: frontier, journey, nature; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, no studio elements

Two figures on horseback move across a dry, rocky landscape with steep mountains in the background. The scene is shot in black and white with high-contrast lighting, showing no buildings or other structures.

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 45:50 (passage 45:45–45:54); US record: No renewal found

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