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Water Rustlers · Beat 254 · permalink

Riverbank

52:38–52:52 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). 2 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 52:4052:40Frame at 52:4652:46Frame at 52:4852:48Frame at 52:5152:51

Play from 52:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 467–472. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing cowboy hat and dark clothing, on horseback visible
  • person in water, partially submerged, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person on horseback is visible near a river. [frame:1]
  • A person on horseback holds a lasso. [frame:2]
  • A person is seen struggling in river water. [frame:3]
  • A person is lying in river water, holding an object. [frame:4]
Seen
horse, lasso, river, mountains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: struggle, outdoor peril; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shot followed by medium and close shots, natural lighting

A person on horseback is shown near a river, followed by shots of a person struggling in the water. The setting is an outdoor riverbank with mountains in the background.

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 52:40 (passage 52:38–52:52); US record: No renewal found

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