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Water Rustlers · Beat 235 · permalink

Desert

48:47–49:01 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:5448:54

Play from 48:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 143 · shots 423–423. 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
  • adult, wearing dark shirt and pants, holding a box visible
  • distant figure, indistinct clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands holding a box near a 'DANGER DYNAMITE' sign on a desert slope. [frame:1]
  • Another person is visible in the distance on the same slope. [frame:1]
Seen
sign, box, cacti and shrubs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, isolation; style notes: wide shot, black-and-white, natural daylight, static framing

A person stands near a sign reading 'DANGER DYNAMITE' on a desert hillside with cacti and shrubs; another person is visible in the distance. No names or time of day are established.

“Oh, yeah.” 48:49 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 48:54 (passage 48:47–49:01); US record: No renewal found

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