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Under California Stars · Beat 20 · permalink

Ranch entrance

6:46–6:51 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:486:48

Play from 6:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 50–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch entrance (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • rider wearing dark hat and coat, on a light-colored horse visible
  • rider wearing dark hat and coat, on a dark horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback pass through a wooden gate. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden gate with bull skull [frame:1], circular sign on gate [frame:1], thatched-roof building [frame:1], two horses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: Western, ranch life, outdoor travel; style notes: wide shot, natural daylight, static framing, rustic Western setting

Two riders on horseback pass through a wooden gate marked with a bull skull and a circular sign. The setting is an outdoor ranch entrance with a thatched-roof structure visible behind the gate.

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 6:48 (passage 6:46–6:51); US record: No renewal found

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