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Under California Stars · Beat 37 · permalink

Dirt path

7:58–7:59 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 7:597:59

Play from 7:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 73–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dirt path (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and light pants, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man rides a horse on a dirt path. [frame:1]
  • A dog runs beside the horse. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], dog [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: outdoor, active; themes: western, outdoor travel; style notes: medium shot, natural daylight, outdoor setting with trees and dirt path

A man in a cowboy hat and dark shirt rides a horse on a dirt path. A dog runs alongside the horse, visible in the frame at 479s.

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 7:59 (passage 7:58–7:59); US record: No renewal found

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