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Under California Stars · Beat 35 · permalink

Road

7:53–7:56 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 7:547:54

Play from 7:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 71–71. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • a person on horseback is visible on the left side of a dirt road [frame:1]
  • a dark object lies on the ground near the center of the road [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], dark object on ground [frame:1], dirt road [frame:1], trees and scrubland [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: outdoor travel, rural landscape; style notes: wide shot, natural daylight, static framing, outdoor setting

A person on horseback is visible on the left side of a dirt road, with a dark object lying on the ground nearby. The background shows trees and scrubland under daylight conditions.

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 7:54 (passage 7:53–7:56); US record: No renewal found

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