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Under California Stars · Beat 15 · permalink

Private office

5:31–5:52 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 5:345:34Frame at 5:385:38Frame at 5:455:45Frame at 5:505:50

Play from 5:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 41–45. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older man, heavy build, wearing a dark shirt and brown vest, standing indoors visible
  • Roy (named at t:5:45): younger man, slim build, wearing a blue shirt and patterned neckerchief, standing indoors visible, audible
  • man in blue overalls, seen from behind, working under wooden structure visible
  • man in dark pants and shirt, seen from behind, working under wooden structure visible
  • man in blue overalls, seen from behind, working under wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a blue dress is seen through a window, standing outside. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand indoors, one speaking to the other. [frame:2]
  • The older man clasps his hands while the younger man looks away. [frame:3]
  • Three men are bent over, working under a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Also said
“I guess I can't deny him, Roy.” 5:45 · “Runs in the family, that's Alf and Luke and Grover Bullfincher.” 5:47
Seen
wooden window frame [frame:1], bookshelf with objects [frame:2], leather chair [frame:2], wooden structure with beams [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: family relations, introductions, work; style notes: medium shots indoors with warm lighting, exterior shot with natural daylight, static camera

Two men are shown indoors in a room with rustic decor, speaking to each other; one is addressed as Mr. Rogers. The scene then cuts to an exterior shot of three men working under a wooden structure.

“Hello, Mr. Rogers.” 5:35 · “Didn't you, cousin Cookie?” 5:40 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 5:34 (passage 5:31–5:52); US record: No renewal found

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