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Desert

48:40–48:47 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 48:4448:44

Play from 48:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 422–422. 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 in plaid shirt, cowboy hat, dark pants, kneeling, holding a rope visible
  • man in dark shirt, cowboy hat, belt with buckle, standing with hands on hips visible
Seen
rope [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], belt with buckle [frame:1], brush and rocks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: western, confrontation, outdoor labor; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor framing with foreground brush

Two men in cowboy hats are in a desert landscape; one kneels while holding a rope, the other stands with hands on hips. 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 48:44 (passage 48:40–48:47); US record: No renewal found

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