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Water Rustlers · Beat 95 · permalink

Pasture

21:04–21:33 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0821:08Frame at 21:1421:14Frame at 21:2521:25Frame at 21:3021:30

Play from 21:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 174–178. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
pasture (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a collared shirt and vest visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman sings while leaning on a fence [frame:1]
  • Woman continues singing, mouth open [frame:2]
  • Woman leans over fence, calf visible below [frame:3]
  • Woman smiles while looking at calf [frame:4]
Seen
wooden fence, calf, collared shirt and vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: gentle and nostalgic; themes: rural life, lullaby, human-animal bond; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, soft lighting on subject, dark background

A woman sings near a wooden fence at night while a calf stands nearby. The scene is lit to suggest an outdoor setting with artificial lighting, and the transcript includes lyrics about a cowboy and a doggie lullaby.

“Seen her pastures by and by. Every doggie goes to rest in that dreamland of the world. When a cowboy sings a doggie lullaby.” 21:06 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 21:08 (passage 21:04–21:33); US record: No renewal found

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