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Water Rustlers · Beat 25 · permalink

Field

5:42–6:15 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:485:48Frame at 5:565:56Frame at 6:076:07

Play from 5:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 43–45. 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
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and checkered pants, holding a long object visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing with hands at sides visible
Seen happening
  • One man gestures with his hands while speaking to another man. [frame:1]
  • The man in checkered pants gestures toward a pot on a wagon. [frame:2]
  • The man in checkered pants holds a long object horizontally. [frame:3]
Also said
“and what you are like” 6:06
Seen
cowboy hats, checkered pants, wagon wheel, metal pots, long object (possibly a rifle or tool)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to conversational; themes: western, outdoor interaction, dialogue-driven; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

Two men in cowboy hats stand outdoors near a wagon in a rocky, arid landscape; one gestures while speaking, the other listens. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue with no clear names or events established.

“What, Morse?” 5:48 · “before see people eat so much when i saw” 5:52 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 5:48 (passage 5:42–6:15); US record: No renewal found

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