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Desert

19:35–19:47 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3519:35Frame at 19:3819:38Frame at 19:4519:45Frame at 19:4619:46

Play from 19:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 156–160. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, on horseback visible
  • man, wearing a dark hat and coat, standing near a doorway visible
  • Wally (named at t:19:45): man, wearing a light shirt and hat, standing in a doorway visible
Seen happening
  • The woman on horseback is shown in close-up. [frame:3]
  • Two men are visible near a wooden building; one is called Wally. [frame:4]
Also said
“Wally!” 19:45
Seen
horse [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:1], cacti [frame:1], wooden building [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western setting, departure; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, natural outdoor lighting

A woman on horseback is told to pack up and leave by a man; another man appears in a doorway. The setting is a desert with cacti and a wooden fence.

“Come on, get moving.” 19:40 · “Say, I wouldn't get tough if I was... Come on, pack up your stuff.” 19:41 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 19:35 (passage 19:35–19:47); US record: No renewal found

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