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Under California Stars · Beat 107 · permalink

Stable

29:07–29:25 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0829:08Frame at 29:1129:11Frame at 29:2029:20Frame at 29:2429:24

Play from 29:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 320–324. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stable (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, visible in shadow visible
  • man in cowboy hat holding a rope, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A horse is visible in a stable stall. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat looks toward the camera in shadow. [frame:2]
  • Two men are in a stable with a horse; one holds a rope. [frame:3]
  • An exterior shot of a ranch house at dusk or night with lights on. [frame:4]
Also said
“They'll kick your brains out.” 29:11 · “rope that man leader out he'll follow her” 29:15
Seen
horse, cowboy hat, rope, stable stall, ranch house
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confrontation, ranch life, imminent action; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces and objects, use of shadow to obscure details

A man in a cowboy hat is seen inside a dimly lit stable with a horse; another man is present. The scene cuts to an exterior shot of a ranch house at dusk or night. Dialogue includes warnings and a command to rope a man.

“Ah!” 29:07 · “Not that way.” 29:09 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 29:08 (passage 29:07–29:25); US record: No renewal found

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