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Under California Stars · Beat 44 · permalink

Forest

8:57–9:00 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:588:58

Play from 8:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 91–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark shirt, light pants, and dark hat visible
  • man wearing blue shirt, jeans, and light-colored hat visible
Seen happening
  • Two men grapple in an outdoor setting. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], shirt [frame:1], shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, physical struggle; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men are engaged in a physical struggle outdoors. One man in a dark shirt and hat is being held by another man in a blue shirt and light hat.

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 8:58 (passage 8:57–9:00); US record: No renewal found

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