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Under California Stars · Beat 42 · permalink

Field

8:49–8:56 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 8:508:50Frame at 8:548:54

Play from 8:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 88–89. 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 cowboy hat, blue shirt, and dark pants; appears mid-adult visible
  • man wearing a light cowboy hat, grey shirt, and light pants; appears mid-adult visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, brown vest over a light shirt, and brown pants; appears mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a blue shirt kicks another man who is falling backward. [frame:1]
  • Two men in cowboy hats shake hands near a large rock. [frame:2]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], large rock [frame:2], trees and brush [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, reconciliation, western setting; style notes: medium shots with natural outdoor lighting, emphasizing physical action and character interaction

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in a physical altercation outdoors near rocks and trees; one man is kicking another who is falling, while a third man stands nearby. In a subsequent shot, two men in cowboy hats are shaking hands near a large rock.

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 8:50 (passage 8:49–8:56); US record: No renewal found

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