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Water Rustlers · Beat 23 · permalink

Camp

5:07–5:36 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 5:225:22

Play from 5:07 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 14 · shots 41–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark vest, seated at table visible
  • Ken (named at t:5:22): man in cowboy hat and light shirt, seated at table visible
  • Andy (named at t:5:22): man in cowboy hat and dark vest, seated at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated at table, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • Four men sit around a table outdoors, talking. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden bench [frame:1], wagon wheel in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: ranching, labor, personal history; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume

Four men in cowboy hats sit around a table outdoors, conversing. One man is named Ken and another Andy, as mentioned in dialogue.

“And there weren't no silver left. So you set her down to be a successful rancher. I'm thinking it was a lucky strike for you, Ken. I've had to work ever since. Don't forget that, Andy.” 5:22 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 5:22 (passage 5:07–5:36); US record: No renewal found

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