Field

11:19–11:39 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

11:27

11:38

Play from 11:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 93–94. 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

wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, riding a dark horse visible

Seen

{'item': 'horse', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'cattle', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'hat', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: outdoor, rural, western; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, black and white, outdoor setting

A person on horseback moves across a rocky, arid landscape with cattle visible in the background. The setting appears to be an open, natural environment with sparse vegetation and rocky terrain.

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 11:27 (passage 11:19–11:39); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/water_rustlers/b53.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/water_rustlers/b53"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/water_rustlers/0093.webp" alt="Frame from Water Rustlers (1938) at 11:27 (passage 11:19–11:39); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Water Rustlers (1938), 11:19–11:39. Internet Archive copy water_rustlers; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Water Rustlers (1938), 11:19–11:39", https://publicreel.org/moment/water_rustlers/b53, from Internet Archive item water_rustlers, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Field

Evidence and details

The record

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