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Water Rustlers · Beat 97 · permalink

Ranch yard

21:35–22:04 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3721:37Frame at 21:4521:45Frame at 21:4721:47Frame at 22:0022:00

Play from 21:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 180–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch_yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:4
Seen happening
  • A calf is shown in close-up, facing the camera. [frame:1]
  • The calf turns its head to the side. [frame:2]
  • The calf is shown from behind, moving away. [frame:3]
  • A ranch yard with horses, figures, and a building under trees is visible. [frame:4]
Seen
calf [frame:1], horses [frame:4], ranch building [frame:4], trees [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: ranch life, urgency of departure; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight close-ups on the calf, wide shot with deep shadows and backlighting

A calf is shown in close-up against a dark background, followed by a wider shot of a ranch yard with figures and horses under trees. No named characters appear. The dialogue suggests urgency about leaving on a trail.

“Little dokie, it's there.” 21:36 · “Cause we gotta beat it when we hit the trail again.” 21:56 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 21:37 (passage 21:35–22:04); US record: No renewal found

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