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Water Rustlers · Beat 76 · permalink

Field

17:42–18:07 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 17:4617:46Frame at 17:5517:55Frame at 18:0318:03

Play from 17:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 141–143. 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
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a light-colored cowboy shirt, dark pants, and a wide-brimmed hat visible, audible
  • man, wearing a light-colored shirt, dark pants, wide-brimmed hat, and a neckerchief; holding reins or rope visible, audible
Also said
“As a matter of fact, we're planning a drive in the morning and we can use a couple of extra hands.” 17:56 · “Nope, my father is.” 18:05
Seen
wooden fence [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], reins or rope [frame:2], belt with holster [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: workplace hiring, family authority, ranch life; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

A man and a woman in cowboy attire converse outdoors near a wooden fence; the man mentions planning a drive and clarifies his father is the boss. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a ranch or open land.

“Was there someone you wanted to see?” 17:43 · “I told him I came in to see if you were putting on any new hands.” 17:47 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 17:46 (passage 17:42–18:07); US record: No renewal found

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