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Under California Stars · Beat 114 · permalink

Jail

30:33–30:35 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 30:3430:34

Play from 30:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 336–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark shirt, holding a gun visible
  • person seated, wearing light-colored shirt, holding a small object near their face visible
Seen
gun [frame:1], chains [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, captivity; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, high contrast between light and shadow

A man in a hat and dark shirt holds a gun while standing over another person who is seated and holding a small object. The setting appears to be a dimly lit interior with wooden walls and chains visible.

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 30:34 (passage 30:33–30:35); US record: No renewal found

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