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Under California Stars · Beat 113 · permalink

Barn

30:16–30:33 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 30:1730:17Frame at 30:2230:22Frame at 30:2930:29Frame at 30:3130:31

Play from 30:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 331–335. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barn (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing light-colored pants and dark shoes, visible from waist down visible
  • person in light-colored jacket and dark pants, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A horse is visible in a stall behind a metal gate. [frame:1]
  • A person walks toward a staircase in a dimly lit interior. [frame:2]
  • A dog is lying on the ground and being petted by a hand. [frame:3]
  • A person's leg and foot are visible next to the dog on the ground. [frame:4]
Also said
“I” 30:27
Seen
horse [frame:1], metal gate [frame:1], staircase [frame:2], dog [frame:3], hand petting dog [frame:3], person's leg and foot [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dimly lit; themes: animal presence, mystery, interior suspense; style notes: low-key lighting, close-ups on animals and partial views of people, static framing

A horse is visible in a stall while a person approaches a staircase in a dimly lit interior; a dog is petted on the ground. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Shrieker!” 30:18 · “Oh! Oh!” 30:25 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 30:17 (passage 30:16–30:33); US record: No renewal found

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