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Water Rustlers · Beat 26 · permalink

Desert

6:15–6:21 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:176:17Frame at 6:206:20

Play from 6:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 46–47. 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:2
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, shirt, and checkered apron, holding a pan visible
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], checkered apron [frame:1], cooking pots [frame:1], saguaro cacti [frame:2], rocky hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: western, outdoor labor, desert landscape; style notes: static medium shot followed by a static wide shot; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; natural desert setting

A man in a cowboy hat and apron stands outdoors near cooking pots with a rocky desert landscape behind him. The scene then cuts to a view of tall saguaro cacti in the same desert environment.

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 6:17 (passage 6:15–6:21); US record: No renewal found

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