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Water Rustlers · Beat 43 · permalink

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9:11–9:35 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:139:13Frame at 9:199:19Frame at 9:259:25Frame at 9:319:31

Play from 9:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 73–76. 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
  • Charlie (named at t:9:16): man in plaid shirt, vest, cowboy hat, and light pants visible, audible
  • man in plaid shirt, vest, cowboy hat, and dark pants visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, bandana, cowboy hat, and light pants visible, audible
Also said
“Then what about water for our cattle? Well, we won't have any.” 9:16 · “We should have stopped Waylon and his crowd from building that dam. I'll go in and see what can be done about it.” 9:16
Seen
cowboy hats, plaid shirts, wooden fence, horses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: conflict over water rights, ranching livelihood, community action; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, Western costume

Three men in cowboy hats discuss the closure of a dam's gates, which has stopped the river's flow and threatens their cattle's water supply. One man decides to go and see what can be done about it.

“Oh, Dad. Oh, Andy. They've closed the gates of the dam. What?” 9:11 · “When did this happen, Charlie? I've just been up there. It's already stopping the flow of the river.” 9:16 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 9:13 (passage 9:11–9:35); US record: No renewal found

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