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Water Rustlers · Beat 63 · permalink

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13:53–14:02 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5813:58

Play from 13:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 114–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, plaid shirt, dark pants, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands outdoors near trees and rocks. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat, plaid shirt, trees and rocks, distant cliff or rock face
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, outdoor, slightly mysterious due to unclear intent; themes: western, outdoor journey, unspecified mission; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, wide framing showing environment

A man in a cowboy hat and plaid shirt stands outdoors near trees and rocks while a voice asks where he is going; he replies he likes to go for the chop down by the dam. No named characters appear, and the setting is natural with no indoor structures visible.

“Where are you going, Mike?” 13:57 · “Oh, I like to go for the chop down this dam.” 13:58 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 13:58 (passage 13:53–14:02); US record: No renewal found

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