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Water Rustlers · Beat 255 · permalink

River

52:52–53:08 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5652:56Frame at 53:0453:04

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 473–474. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing a hat, riding a horse, later dismounting visible
  • figure lying in river, partially submerged visible
Seen happening
  • A person on horseback is near a river with a figure lying in the water. [frame:1]
  • The rider dismounts and stands beside the fallen figure in the river. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], river [frame:1], fallen figure [frame:1], brush and hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor peril; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, black and white, static camera

A person on horseback is seen near a river with a fallen figure in the water; the rider dismounts and approaches the figure. The scene is set outdoors in a natural landscape with hills and brush.

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 52:56 (passage 52:52–53:08); US record: No renewal found

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