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15:46–16:12 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4715:47Frame at 15:5015:50Frame at 16:0216:02

Play from 15:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 126–128. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Miss Shirley (named at t:15:53): woman, blonde, wearing light-colored Western shirt, wide-brimmed hat, bandana, belt with holster visible, audible
  • man, wearing dark coat, wide-brimmed hat, standing near wooden structure visible, audible
Also said
“Well, that land belongs to Whelan. We can't come through there.” 16:01 · “Well, we're going to try.” 16:04
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, bandana, holster belt, dark coat, wooden structure with stone wall, antlers mounted on post
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: land use conflict, cattle drive, gender roles in Westerns; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

A woman in Western attire speaks with a man in a dark coat near a wooden structure; they discuss driving cattle through Al Pass despite land ownership by Whelan. The conversation includes mention of Andy Jurgens accompanying the cattle.

“I've just herded him onto the flats, Miss Shirley.” 15:53 · “Now, you know there's no water there.” 15:56 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 15:47 (passage 15:46–16:12); US record: No renewal found

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