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22:05–22:27 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:0822:08Frame at 22:1222:12Frame at 22:1722:17Frame at 22:2322:23

Play from 22:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 187–190. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with wavy hair, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark vest, medium build visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a dark shirt, holding a small stringed instrument (mandolin or ukulele) visible
Seen happening
  • Woman is visible, singing or speaking with her mouth open. [frame:1]
  • Man is visible, holding a stringed instrument and smiling. [frame:2]
  • Woman is visible again, singing or speaking with her mouth open. [frame:3]
  • Woman is visible, smiling with her mouth open. [frame:4]
Seen
stringed instrument [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic or sentimental; themes: performance, music, romantic or emotional expression; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-ups, theatrical framing

A woman and a man are shown in alternating close-ups against a dark background; the man holds a stringed instrument. The transcript includes fragmented lines about a blessing, a cowboy singing, and a lullaby.

“There's a blessing from the force up in the high. When the cowboy sings, draw no gift.” 22:06 · “Lullaby.” 22:20 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 22:08 (passage 22:05–22:27); US record: No renewal found

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