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Water Rustlers · Beat 230 · permalink

Desert

47:04–47:27 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0547:05Frame at 47:1147:11Frame at 47:2147:21Frame at 47:2547:25

Play from 47:04 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 139 · shots 408–412. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, curly hair, wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt with neckerchief visible, audible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt with neckerchief, seated on horse visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a cowboy hat is visible outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man and woman on horseback are visible in a desert with cacti. [frame:2]
  • The woman is visible again, smiling. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman on horseback are visible again, facing each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“I have.” 47:21
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], horses [frame:2], saguaro cactus [frame:2], neckercloths [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but collaborative; themes: Western, collaboration, planning; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

Two people in cowboy hats are shown on horseback in a desert landscape with cacti. One person speaks about performing a major operation and finding a plan, which the other acknowledges.

“I think we'll perform the first major operation.” 47:21 · “You sound as though you've found the plan.” 47:21 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 47:05 (passage 47:04–47:27); US record: No renewal found

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