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Under California Stars · Beat 119 · permalink

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31:20–31:34 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:2731:27

Play from 31:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 343–343. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored jacket with decorative patches on shoulders, dark hair, sitting on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A person sits on the ground holding an object. [frame:1]
Also said
“Did you hear what he said about rolling a trigger? I don't dare tell on him.” 31:24
Seen
jacket with decorative patches [frame:1], object held by person [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: fear, threat, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on seated figure, grainy film texture

A person in a light-colored jacket with decorative patches sits on the ground in a dimly lit outdoor setting, holding an object. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a tram, someone not being dead, and fear of reporting a threat involving a trigger.

“Tram.” 31:21 · “You're not dead.” 31:22 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 31:27 (passage 31:20–31:34); US record: No renewal found

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