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Under California Stars · Beat 102 · permalink

Restaurant

27:43–28:06 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; 6 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 27:4627:46Frame at 27:5227:52Frame at 27:5627:56Frame at 28:0228:02

Play from 27:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 53 · shots 302–305. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a blue embroidered western shirt, singing into a microphone visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing an orange embroidered western shirt, holding a pitcher visible
  • man in a plaid shirt and chef's hat, standing and serving visible
  • man seated at a table, wearing a patterned shirt, eating visible
  • man standing behind p4, wearing a western shirt and neckerchief visible
  • man playing violin, wearing a dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Exterior of a house at night with lights on. [frame:1]
  • Group of men singing in a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
  • Woman smiles while holding a pitcher. [frame:3]
  • Man in chef's hat serves seated man at table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Please ease my pain.” 27:49 · “Where is your rain?” 28:00
Seen
microphone [frame:2], violin [frame:2], pitcher [frame:3], chef's hat [frame:4], wooden door with diamond panels [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and reverent; themes: prayer, community, dining, nighttime; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static framing, period western costumes

A group of men sing in a dimly lit interior while a woman holds a pitcher; a man in a chef's hat serves another man seated at a table. The transcript contains prayer-like lines asking for relief and rain.

“Amen.” 27:44 · “Oh Lord” 27:45 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 27:46 (passage 27:43–28:06); US record: No renewal found

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