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Under California Stars · Beat 16 · permalink

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5:52–6:15 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:046:04

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Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 46–46. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark shirt and brown vest, short dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Roy (named at t:5:52): man in blue shirt with neckerchief, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“By the way, Cookie... Did you ever hire that horse trainer I asked you about?” 6:02 · “Hey, that bunch that's been rounding up range horses is over in the North Pasture. Oh, who is it, Cookie? Oh, some strangers butchering up them range horses for meetin' hides.” 6:15
Seen
wooden wall [frame:1], window with light [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational with undertones of concern; themes: family obligations, ranch management, outsider threat; style notes: medium two-shot, naturalistic lighting from window, Western costume detail, static framing

Two men in Western attire converse indoors; one mentions hiring relatives and a horse trainer, while the other points out someone named Bob and reports strangers butchering range horses in the North Pasture. No names are visually confirmed; the setting appears to be a rustic interior with wooden walls and a window.

“Cookie, if you don't quit hiring your relatives... Well, Roy, after their mama died... They'll never be able to feed your...” 5:52 · “I know.” 5:58 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 6:04 (passage 5:52–6:15); US record: No renewal found

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