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Water Rustlers · Beat 244 · permalink

Desert

50:35–50:53 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; 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 50:4150:41Frame at 50:5150:51

Play from 50:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 434–435. 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 wearing dark shirt and cowboy hat, visible in frame:2 visible
  • man wearing light shirt and cowboy hat, visible in frame:2 visible, audible
Seen
sign reading 'DYNAMITE', cacti and desert shrubs, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: western, danger, action; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of two men in foreground with desert landscape behind; natural daylight lighting

Two men in hats are seen in a desert landscape near a sign reading 'DYNAMITE' as one speaks about stopping someone from dropping a plunger. The scene is outdoors in daylight with sparse vegetation and cacti.

“Hey, we've got to get down and stop them from dropping that plunger.” 50:41 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 50:41 (passage 50:35–50:53); US record: No renewal found

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