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Water Rustlers · Beat 88 · permalink

Ranch

20:07–20:27 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 20:0920:09Frame at 20:1920:19

Play from 20:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 49 · shots 165–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark neckerchief, belt visible, audible
  • man, wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, gun belt, standing beside horse visible, audible
Also said
“And it'll be a job that you wish I didn't have.” 20:15 · “We don't want any fighting.” 20:24
Seen
cowboy hat, cowboy hat, horse, gun belt, fence
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, ranch life; style notes: medium close-up on woman, then two-shot with man and horse; outdoor daylight; Western costume and setting

A woman in Western attire speaks to a man beside a horse, telling him to leave the ranch and return to Waylon. The man agrees, and she insists there should be no fighting.

“We have no further use for you on this ranch.” 20:09 · “Go back to Waylon. He'll give you a job.” 20:11 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 20:09 (passage 20:07–20:27); US record: No renewal found

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