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Water Rustlers · Beat 77 · permalink

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18:07–18:17 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). 1 quote 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 18:1218:12

Play from 18:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 144–144. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, and dark pants, standing visible, audible
  • person wearing wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, seated on horse visible
Seen happening
  • The man on foot stands near a horse while the rider sits atop it. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], saddle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, conversational; themes: authority, western setting, interpersonal dynamics; style notes: medium shot, outdoor natural lighting, black-and-white film stock, static framing

A man on foot speaks to a person on horseback in an outdoor setting. The dialogue suggests a hierarchical relationship, with the speaker acknowledging the other as 'the boss.'

“I still reckon you're the boss.” 18:09 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 18:12 (passage 18:07–18:17); US record: No renewal found

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