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Water Rustlers · Beat 246 · permalink

Field

50:58–51:06 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:0251:02

Play from 50:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 147 · shots 437–437. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing light-colored shirt and hat, riding a dark horse visible
  • wearing light shirt and hat, riding a dark horse visible
  • wearing dark coat and hat, riding a light-colored horse visible
Seen happening
  • Three riders gallop across open terrain on horseback. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, western, open landscape; style notes: wide shot, motion blur suggests speed, high-contrast black and white, outdoor natural lighting

Three riders on horseback are shown galloping across an open, arid landscape. 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 51:02 (passage 50:58–51:06); US record: No renewal found

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