Public Reel

Under California Stars · Beat 3 · permalink

Outdoor set with buildings and hills

1:28–2:01 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:421:42Frame at 1:591:59

Play from 1:28 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 3 · shots 2–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor set with buildings and hills (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, pointing at papers visible
  • man in light cowboy hat and plaid shirt, standing and facing p1 visible
  • man in cap and light shirt, standing behind rocks visible
  • man in dark hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • Roy (named at t:1:58): unseen speaker audible
  • Al (named at t:1:58): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man points at papers on a table while others look on. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light cowboy hat stands facing another man at a table. [frame:2]
Also said
“That does it, boys.” 1:56 · “You okay? Sure, Roy. Sure, Al.” 1:58
Seen
cowboy hats, table with papers, rocks, buildings in background, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense then relieved; themes: film production, cowboy attire, on-set interaction; style notes: outdoor Western setting, natural lighting, medium group shot

A group of men in cowboy hats are gathered around a table outdoors, with one man pointing at papers while another speaks. The scene ends with someone calling 'Cut!' and others checking on each other's well-being.

“Oh, my God.” 1:42 · “Cut!” 1:55 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Under California Stars (1948) at 1:42 (passage 1:28–2:01); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/under_california_stars/b3.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite