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Under California Stars · Beat 1 · permalink

Outdoor scene with trees and horses

0:00–0:59 Registered 1948

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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:290:29

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor scene with trees and horses (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 0:49 · “From far across the valley, up to the home of the cowboy song,” 0:51
Seen
title card with text 'Starring ROY ROGERS And TRIGGER The Smartest Horse in the Movies', horses, trees
On screen
Starring ROY ROGERS And TRIGGER The Smartest Horse in the Movies
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and poetic; themes: western, cowboy culture, nature; style notes: static title card shot with natural outdoor lighting, centered text, pastoral background

The beat opens with a title card introducing Roy Rogers and Trigger, set against a backdrop of horses and trees. Spoken lines reference moonlight, western regions, and cowboy songs, with one line exclaiming 'Oh, my God.'

“Oh, say my English piece of art now.” 0:14 · “Save our ink the moon is shining bright. Robbing in his midst and the countryside's a threat. Under California's dawn.” 0:19 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 Under California Stars (1948) at 0:29 (passage 0:00–0:59); US record: No renewal found

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