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Under California Stars · Beat 38 · permalink

Field

7:59–8:12 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:018:01Frame at 8:058:05Frame at 8:108:10

Play from 7:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 74–76. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark shirt and a hat, riding a horse visible, audible
  • man wearing a light shirt and a cowboy hat, riding a horse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback are seen in a dusty field with other horses nearby. [frame:1]
  • Horses are running through a rocky, wooded area. [frame:2]
  • Two riders face each other on horseback, one holding a rifle. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:1], rifle [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, wilderness, horseback riding; style notes: wide outdoor shots, natural lighting, dusty atmosphere, medium close-ups on riders

Two riders on horseback are seen in a dusty, outdoor setting with other horses nearby; one rider asks what is happening, and the other replies they are running wild horses. The scene appears to take place during daylight in a natural, open area with trees and rocks.

“Hey, what's going on here?” 8:02 · “Running wild horses if it's any of your business.” 8:07 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 8:01 (passage 7:59–8:12); US record: No renewal found

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