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Water Rustlers · Beat 66 · permalink

Field

14:47–15:45 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5514:55Frame at 15:1015:10Frame at 15:2315:23Frame at 15:3715:37

Play from 14:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 36 · shots 121–124. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man, wearing plaid shirt, vest, and cowboy hat visible
  • woman, wearing light-colored shirt, dark neckerchief, cowboy hat, and belt with holster visible
  • man, wearing patterned shirt and cowboy hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man embraces a woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Whelan's bought up all the land beyond that, including the past.” 15:24 · “It appears like I'll leave you a heap of trouble someday.” 15:34
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], plaid shirts [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], horse [frame:2], belt with holster [frame:2], necktie/kerchief [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: land ownership, cattle drive, family decision-making; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, period Western costume, close framing on dialogue

Three people in cowboy attire converse outdoors, discussing a plan to move cattle through a pass to water sources despite land ownership issues. One man embraces a woman at the end of the beat.

“Why you not let Mike go?” 14:50 · “In the morning, we could drive ours and Juergens herd through our pass to the new water bases.” 15:17 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 14:55 (passage 14:47–15:45); US record: No renewal found

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