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Under California Stars · Beat 4 · permalink

Field

2:01–2:35 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; 5 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 2:092:09Frame at 2:262:26

Play from 2:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 4–5. 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
  • Paul (named at t:2:25): man in dark suit, carrying briefcase, middle-aged, average build visible, audible
  • Roy (named at t:2:09): cowboy in plaid shirt, light-colored cowboy hat, smiling, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark cowboy hat and shirt, seated, younger, visible behind p2 visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat, standing behind p3, partially visible visible
  • man in light shirt, partially visible on far left, behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Roy shakes hands with Paul while others look on. [frame:1]
  • Roy and Paul continue shaking hands; horses are visible nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“Roy, you can be mighty proud of your ten years in pictures.” 2:09 · “Thanks, Paul. You bet. Take a reason, boys. We'll see you.” 2:25
Seen
briefcase [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], horses [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: farewell and celebratory; themes: farewell, celebration of career, Western setting; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, group composition with focus on handshake, cowboy attire and horses suggest Western genre

A man in a suit speaks with a cowboy named Roy, who is preparing to leave for a broadcast; others in cowboy attire are present and wish him well. The setting appears to be outdoors near horses, with a mountainous backdrop.

“Well, that's another picture in the bag. When are you leaving? Right away.” 2:02 · “I'm making my 10th anniversary broadcast from the ranch.” 2:06 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 2:09 (passage 2:01–2:35); US record: No renewal found

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