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Under California Stars · Beat 108 · permalink

Living room

29:25–29:52 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 29:3929:39

Play from 29:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 325–325. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Ted (named at t:29:28): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and light blue shirt visible, audible
  • man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • boy, wearing a patterned shirt with a light collar visible
Also said
“Oh, it's Roy's.” 29:35 · “Let's go see.” 29:48
Seen
fancy shirt [frame:1], cake [t:29:28], dark suit [frame:1], patterned shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and lighthearted; themes: social gathering, borrowed clothing, shared food; style notes: medium shot, warm indoor lighting, three-person grouping

Two men and a boy stand together indoors; one man wears a fancy shirt he borrowed for a party. They discuss the shirt and a piece of cake, then decide to go see something.

“Well, Ted, that's a pretty good-sized piece of cake you got there.” 29:28 · “Say, where'd you get that fancy shirt?” 29:33 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 29:39 (passage 29:25–29:52); US record: No renewal found

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