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Under California Stars · Beat 14 · permalink

Living room

5:15–5:31 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:185:18Frame at 5:225:22Frame at 5:285:28Frame at 5:305:30

Play from 5:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 36–40. 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
  • Roy (named at t:5:16): man in dark blue jacket with silver buttons, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in brown vest over dark shirt, heavier build, dark hair visible, audible
  • man in blue overalls, seen from behind, working under wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other indoors and speak. [frame:1]
  • One man adjusts the other's collar. [frame:2]
  • A man in overalls works under a wooden structure outdoors. [frame:3]
  • The two men stand side by side indoors, looking toward a window. [frame:4]
Also said
“He had a great big... Oh!” 5:29
Seen
plaid curtains, wooden shelf with glassware, wooden structure with shingled roof, window with panes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly humorous; themes: friendship, labor, rural life; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting with window backlighting, period costumes

Two men talk indoors while a third man is seen working outside under a wooden structure. One man mentions hiring extra help who are well fed.

“Well, we sure have missed you around here too, Roy. You just never know how we...” 5:16 · “Oh, Roy, that's just some extra help that I hired so cheap I couldn't afford not to, really. Well, they're certainly well fed.” 5:22 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 5:18 (passage 5:15–5:31); US record: No renewal found

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