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Under California Stars · Beat 13 · permalink

Living room

4:43–5:15 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:464:46Frame at 4:524:52Frame at 5:055:05Frame at 5:145:14

Play from 4:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 9 · shots 32–35. 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
  • man, adult, wearing a blue shirt and jeans, standing indoors visible
  • man, adult, wearing a brown vest over a blue shirt, peeking through a door visible
  • man, adult, wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, walking away outdoors visible
  • group of men, various clothing, seen from behind in a crowded interior visible
  • Roy (named at t:5:00): unseen speaker audible
  • Cookie (named at t:5:10): unseen person addressed as 'Cookie' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A group of men are gathered in a crowded interior space. [frame:2]
  • A man in a vest peers through a door. [frame:3]
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks away from a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden shelf with glassware, plaid curtains, wooden door, wooden structure with shingled roof
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: evasion, mystery, cowboy genre tropes; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting, abrupt cuts between interior and exterior, use of back view to conceal identity

A man in a blue shirt is seen inside a room, then a group of men are shown in a crowded interior, followed by a man in a vest peeking through a door, and finally a man in a cowboy hat walks away outside. A voice tells someone to go on and mentions Roy Rogers.

“Shh, now go on, go on, go on, go on. Get away. You can meet Roy Rogers later. Go on now.” 5:00 · “Who was it, Cookie? - Huh? Oh, nobody, Roy, nobody.” 5:10 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 4:46 (passage 4:43–5:15); US record: No renewal found

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