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Water Rustlers · Beat 28 · permalink

Field

6:46–7:13 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:516:51Frame at 6:596:59Frame at 7:077:07Frame at 7:127:12

Play from 6:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 16 · shots 50–53. 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, and apron, stirring a pot visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and plaid shirt, later holding a can visible
Seen happening
  • One man stirs a pot on a camp stove. [frame:1]
  • The second man walks away from the stove. [frame:2]
  • The second man stands holding a can. [frame:3]
  • The second man looks at the can while standing near a wooden stool. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], apron [frame:1], camp stove with pot [frame:1], wagon wheel [frame:1], can [frame:3], wooden stool [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or surprised, suggested by the exclamation and the abrupt departure; themes: outdoor survival, interpersonal tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera

Two men in cowboy hats are outdoors near a wagon and cooking equipment; one stirs a pot while the other walks away and later holds a can. The setting is a rocky, arid landscape with sparse vegetation.

“Just go along.” 7:05 · “Oh, my God.” 7:10 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 6:51 (passage 6:46–7:13); US record: No renewal found

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