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Water Rustlers · Beat 40 · permalink

Field

8:29–8:48 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:328:32Frame at 8:398:39Frame at 8:468:46

Play from 8:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 66–68. 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 hat and dark clothing, riding a horse visible
  • man wearing hat and light shirt, standing on foot visible
  • person bending over near ground, wearing light shirt and dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback moves cattle through a fenced area. [frame:1]
  • Cattle are being herded through a gate by people on foot and horseback. [frame:2]
  • A person bends over near the ground as cattle run past. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cattle [frame:2], fence [frame:1], dust [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, dusty, outdoor labor; themes: cattle herding, rural labor, open landscape; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, static camera

A man on horseback and others on foot are moving cattle through a fenced area with hills in the background. Dust is kicked up as the animals move, and one person is seen bending over near the ground.

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 8:32 (passage 8:29–8:48); US record: No renewal found

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