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Water Rustlers · Beat 27 · permalink

Field

6:21–6:46 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:266:26Frame at 6:386:38

Play from 6:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 48–49. 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, plaid shirt, dark pants, sitting on stool visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, plaid shirt, dark vest, standing, holding bowl visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a stool eating from a bowl. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand together outdoors, each holding a bowl, appearing to eat or prepare to eat. [frame:2]
Seen
cowboy hat, plaid shirt, stool, bowl, rocky landscape
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: weary and hungry; themes: hunger, outdoor labor, Western genre; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats and plaid shirts are outdoors in a rocky, arid landscape, eating from bowls and speaking about hunger. One man sits on a stool while the other stands nearby, both holding food containers.

“How about some more, Chuck, Mike? These round-ups sure give a fellow a great appetite. I'm so hungry I'm going to fall down. I drink to open air from the outside for eight hours. I'm hungry like anything. I bring the food up to my nose, almost. My stomach, she's sick.” 6:26 · “and then somebody more come to be freed. There. There it is now. Everything. I make myself starve from little pieces. Now, paisali, I get my eat. I'm going to get my eat all day long.” 6:44 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 6:26 (passage 6:21–6:46); US record: No renewal found

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