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Water Rustlers · Beat 52 · permalink

Rocky path

10:56–11:19 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 name 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 11:0011:00Frame at 11:0811:08Frame at 11:1511:15

Play from 10:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 90–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky path (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light-colored shirt, and dark pants, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse toward the camera on a rocky path. [frame:1]
  • The rider is closer, facing forward, with the horse’s head visible. [frame:2]
  • The rider continues forward, now centered in the frame with a distant hill behind. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1], hat [frame:2], rocky path [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, open; themes: solitude, journey, western landscape; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, static camera with subject approaching

A person rides a horse along a rocky, arid path with a steep, brush-covered hillside in the background. The rider, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, approaches the camera across three shots.

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 11:00 (passage 10:56–11:19); US record: No renewal found

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