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Under California Stars · Beat 10 · permalink

Bar

3:30–3:51 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:343:34Frame at 3:393:39Frame at 3:433:43Frame at 3:483:48

Play from 3:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 9 · shots 17–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark shirt and brown vest, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing a light shirt and bow tie, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark shirt, holding a hat, entering through a doorway in frame:3 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt and vest, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest sings with an open mouth. [frame:1]
  • A group of men stand around a bar, looking toward someone off-screen. [frame:2]
  • A man enters through a doorway holding a hat. [frame:3]
  • The group of men look up at the entering man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Let's hail the conquering hero” 3:40 · “For it's time he did appear” 3:43
Seen
bar counter [frame:2], wooden door with glass panel [frame:3], hat [frame:3], wooden shelves with bottles [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory and theatrical; themes: arrival, hero worship, performance; style notes: medium shots, warm studio lighting, staged group composition

A group of men in a bar react to someone entering; one man sings about a 'mighty king' and a 'conquering hero'. The entering man holds a hat and smiles as he appears in a doorway.

“I'm all a Twitter and a flutter. My little knees are just like butter.” 3:30 · “to think the mighty king would stoop to meet us. Huh?” 3:36 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 3:34 (passage 3:30–3:51); US record: No renewal found

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