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Water Rustlers · Beat 249 · permalink

Canyon

51:38–52:09 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3951:39Frame at 51:4951:49Frame at 51:5651:56Frame at 52:0852:08

Play from 51:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 149 · shots 447–459. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
canyon (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, light shirt, and shorts, running visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a cowboy hat, plaid shirt, and neckerchief visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man runs through a rocky area. [frame:1]
  • A large dust cloud erupts in a canyon. [frame:2]
  • A wide view of a canyon with scattered debris or figures. [frame:3]
  • A woman looks alarmed and speaks. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1, frame:4], plaid shirt [frame:4], dust cloud [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: outdoor peril, family concern; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of landscape, medium close-up on character, high-contrast lighting

A man in a cowboy hat runs through a rocky outdoor area while a woman in a cowboy hat and plaid shirt appears to call out. A large dust cloud rises in a canyon, suggesting an explosion or collapse.

“Wait. Mom!” 51:41 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 51:39 (passage 51:38–52:09); US record: No renewal found

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