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Desert

51:10–51:38 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1151:11Frame at 51:1451:14Frame at 51:2651:26Frame at 51:3551:35

Play from 51:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 149 · shots 439–446. 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, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a hat, light shirt, and dark pants, holding a rifle visible
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, standing near a horse visible
  • group of men on horseback in the distance visible
Seen happening
  • A man runs uphill through desert brush. [frame:1]
  • A man aims a rifle while standing among desert plants. [frame:2]
  • A group of men on horseback moves across a desert slope. [frame:3]
  • A man stands beside a saddled horse in a dusty desert area. [frame:4]
Seen
rifle, horse, saddled horse, desert brush, dust
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: western, pursuit, outdoor confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of desert terrain, medium shots of characters, natural lighting

A man in a hat and shirt is seen in a desert landscape with horses and sparse vegetation; another man is visible in the distance on horseback. The transcript contains a single spoken line: 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 51:11 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 51:11 (passage 51:10–51:38); US record: No renewal found

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