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Water Rustlers · Beat 60 · permalink

Field

13:14–13:34 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). 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:1713:17Frame at 13:2313:23Frame at 13:2713:27Frame at 13:3213:32

Play from 13:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 108–111. 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
  • man in dark clothes, working near a gushing pipe visible
  • man in dark clothes, working near a gushing pipe visible
  • woman in light shirt, cowboy hat, and neckerchief, on horseback visible
  • man in dark clothes, digging near a stream visible
  • man in dark clothes, digging near a stream visible
  • man in hat and dark clothes, standing on a slope with a shovel visible
  • man in dark clothes, working on a slope with logs visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand near a gushing pipe in a rocky field. [frame:1]
  • A woman on horseback looks toward the camera in a dry field. [frame:2]
  • Two men dig near a stream with water spraying from a pipe. [frame:3]
  • Two men work on a slope with logs and dirt, one holding a shovel. [frame:4]
Seen
gushing pipe [frame:1], horse [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:2], shovel [frame:4], logs [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and laborious; themes: labor, water control, rural setting; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, static camera

A scene in a dry, rocky landscape shows men working near a gushing pipe and a woman on horseback. Another shot shows men digging near a stream and a final shot shows men working on a slope with logs and dirt.

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 13:17 (passage 13:14–13:34); US record: No renewal found

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