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26:56–27:24 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0827:08Frame at 27:2227:22

Play from 26:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 297–298. 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
  • man in blue Western shirt with fringe, standing at microphone visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in light shirt with neckerchief, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in light shirt with patterned neckerchief, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing orange patterned vest, holding a trophy visible
  • man in background, partially visible behind p5 visible
  • woman in background, partially visible behind p5 visible
Also said
“Don't you?” 27:24
Seen
microphone with 'WYX' logo, trophy, Western-style shirts with fringe and neckerchiefs, patterned vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and supplicating; themes: prayer and longing, Western performance, public address; style notes: studio-lit medium shots, staged group composition, Western costume design

A group of men in Western-style clothing stand behind a microphone while a woman in a patterned vest holds a trophy. The transcript contains lines of prayerful questioning about rain, sunshine, and pain.

“Will they fly away our way? Oh, Lord, please ease my pain.” 26:57 · “Oh Lord, where is your rain and sunshine?” 27:12 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 27:08 (passage 26:56–27:24); US record: No renewal found

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