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Water Rustlers · Beat 41 · permalink

Riverbank

8:48–9:05 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 8:528:52Frame at 8:588:58Frame at 9:039:03

Play from 8:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 69–71. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Andy (named at t:8:49): man in cowboy hat, light shirt, vest, seated on fence visible, audible
  • Tim (named at t:8:49): man in cowboy hat, dark shirt, seated on fence visible, audible
  • person in dark clothing, walking in desert visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit on a fence and talk about cattle. [frame:1]
  • A person walks through a desert landscape with cacti. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come on.” 9:00 · “Looks like your daughter coming” 9:00
Seen
wooden fence, river, cacti, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: ranch life, family, landscape; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Two men in cowboy hats sit on a wooden fence near a river, discussing cattle and grazing land. A third person is seen walking in a desert landscape with cacti, as one man remarks that it looks like the other's daughter is coming.

“Got a nice looking bunch of cattle this year, Andy.” 8:49 · “Yeah, you've ever been improving them regularly, Tim. That comes from good grazing land and water.” 8:49 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 8:52 (passage 8:48–9:05); US record: No renewal found

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