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Water Rustlers · Beat 85 · permalink

Farm

19:16–19:35 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:2119:21Frame at 19:2919:29Frame at 19:3419:34

Play from 19:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 153–155. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young man, light shirt, cowboy hat, visible belt and holster visible, audible
  • older man, dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, holding a stick or whip visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other by a wooden fence. [frame:1]
  • The man in the light shirt turns slightly toward the other man. [frame:2]
  • The two men remain in conversation, standing close. [frame:3]
Also said
“Say, I don't want to start in work by arguing with you.” 19:28 · “It'd be a lot nicer to be sort of friendly.” 19:31
Seen
wooden fence, cowboy hats, holster and gun belt, horse, wooden building
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but restrained; themes: authority, conflict, workplace negotiation; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black and white, natural outdoor lighting

Two men in cowboy hats stand by a wooden fence and talk; one says he will handle hiring, the other suggests being friendly instead of arguing. A horse is visible behind them near a wooden building.

“I thought I told you we didn't need any hands. Well, the boss figured there might be need for one or two in the morning.” 19:20 · “Well, if there's anybody needed on this outfit, I'll do the hiring.” 19:25 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 19:21 (passage 19:16–19:35); US record: No renewal found

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