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Water Rustlers · Beat 55 · permalink

Field

11:57–12:12 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0112:01Frame at 12:0912:09

Play from 11:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 98–99. 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
  • adult, wearing light shirt, dark pants, and a bandana; crouching; Western-style belt with bullets visible visible
Seen happening
  • Person p1 kneels beside a calf on rocky ground. [frame:1]
  • Person p1 reaches toward the calf’s head with their right hand. [frame:2]
Seen
calf [frame:1], horse legs [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], rocks and dry grass [frame:1], belt with bullets [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, focused; themes: ranch life, human-animal interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, natural outdoor lighting, shallow depth of field emphasizing subject

A person in Western attire kneels beside a calf on rocky ground, reaching toward it. The scene is outdoors, with a horse’s legs visible nearby and a hat on the ground.

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 12:01 (passage 11:57–12:12); US record: No renewal found

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