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Field

10:39–10:48 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). 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:4010:40Frame at 10:4310:43Frame at 10:4410:44Frame at 10:4710:47

Play from 10:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 85–88. 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
Seen happening
  • Two cows stand in a rocky, arid landscape. [frame:1]
  • One cow is lying dead on the rocky ground. [frame:4]
Seen
cow [frame:1], cow [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desolate; themes: death in nature, arid environment; style notes: wide shot establishing landscape, then close-up on dead animal; high-contrast black and white, static camera

Two cows stand in a rocky, arid landscape with hills in the background; one cow is later shown lying dead on the ground. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible in these frames.

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 10:40 (passage 10:39–10:48); US record: No renewal found

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