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Under California Stars · Beat 12 · permalink

Living room

4:21–4:43 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 4:244:24Frame at 4:294:29Frame at 4:364:36Frame at 4:404:40

Play from 4:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 27–31. 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:2
People
  • man in blue shirt and bandana, smiling, seated visible
  • man in vest, seated at piano visible
  • group of men standing, casual shirts, some with hats visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest sits at a piano while others stand around him. [frame:1]
  • Men gather in a room with a fireplace and musical instruments. [frame:2]
  • A man in a blue shirt and bandana smiles broadly. [frame:3]
  • The group continues to stand around the piano, some looking at the seated man. [frame:4]
Seen
piano, fireplace, guitar, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and social; themes: camaraderie, music, informal gathering; style notes: medium shots with warm lighting, group framing, focus on facial expressions

A group of men are gathered in a rustic interior, some standing and others seated, with one man at a piano. One man in a blue shirt and bandana is shown smiling in a close-up, while others appear to be listening or reacting to him.

“boys the brain is like this and despite this oh he's rough and the toughest let me mention he's the singer is too but is he the same old rock that we once knew hi you fellas hello boy some of you boys” 4:24 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 4:24 (passage 4:21–4:43); US record: No renewal found

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