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Water Rustlers · Beat 70 · permalink

Ranch

16:24–16:53 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; 2 names 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 16:2816:28Frame at 16:3616:36Frame at 16:4516:45Frame at 16:5116:51

Play from 16:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 130–133. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, standing near horse visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, with gun belt, standing near fence visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man in the dark coat leads his horse toward the indicated spot. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm the foreman.” 16:29 · “Say, do you mind if I water my horse?” 16:46
Seen
horse, wooden fence, cattle, gun belt, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but polite; themes: employment seeking, ranch life, Western frontier; style notes: medium two-shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats converse near a wooden fence with horses and cattle visible; one asks for work and permission to water his horse. The setting is outdoors, with trees and livestock in the background.

“Looking for somebody, stranger?” 16:24 · “Yes, I'm looking for the foreman.” 16:26 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 16:28 (passage 16:24–16:53); US record: No renewal found

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