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Water Rustlers · Beat 64 · permalink

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14:02–14:25 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0714:07Frame at 14:1814:18

Play from 14:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 115–116. 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 in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, dark pants, holding a hat visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, dark coat, standing beside p1 visible, audible
  • man on horseback, wearing cowboy hat and dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand outdoors near trees and rocks, one holding a hat. [frame:1]
  • A third man on horseback appears; one man gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's no right for him to stop this water and mountain.” 14:12 · “I just found out why they built that dam. Why? They're using the water for gun pressure for hydraulic mining in Black Canyon.” 14:22
Seen
cowboy hats, plaid shirt, horse, rocks and trees in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: water rights, conflict over resource use, western frontier justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats stand outdoors near a horse and rocky terrain; one speaks about water rights and hydraulic mining. A third man on horseback appears in a later shot as dialogue reveals a dam is being used for mining.

“It's break my heart to see this beef not drinking. If you can't do that, you'll be shocked.” 14:03 · “Who tried to shot me? I chop him down like cherry tree.” 14:08 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 14:07 (passage 14:02–14:25); US record: No renewal found

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