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28:44–28:47 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 28:4628:46

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 313–313. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior)
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, back to camera visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark jacket, standing to the left, facing p1 visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark jacket, standing to the right, facing p1 visible
Seen
wall lamp, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, noir aesthetic; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, high contrast between light and shadow, static framing

Three men in hats are seen in a dimly lit interior space; one faces away while two others stand facing him. The lighting is low, with a single wall lamp providing illumination.

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 28:46 (passage 28:44–28:47); US record: No renewal found

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