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Under California Stars · Beat 47 · permalink

Forest

9:10–9:31 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:119:11Frame at 9:149:14Frame at 9:259:25Frame at 9:299:29

Play from 9:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 94–98. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, holding a gun, on horseback visible
  • man in light shirt, on horseback, next to p1 visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, seen from behind, on horseback visible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, seen from behind, on horseback visible
  • Major (named at t:9:24): unseen speaker, voice heard in transcript audible
Seen happening
  • A shaggy dog stands near a tree in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • Several men on horseback ride along a dirt path in the woods. [frame:2]
  • A man holding a gun sits on a horse next to another man; both are facing forward. [frame:3]
  • Men on horseback continue riding away from the camera on a dirt path. [frame:4]
Also said
“I didn't find any horses up the drawer you sent me.” 9:18 · “That dog barks out. He won't, Major. I promise you he won't. Get in, boy!” 9:24
Seen
dog [frame:1], horses [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], gun [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], trees [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, confrontation, animal control; style notes: medium shots of riders from behind and front, natural outdoor lighting, dusty path, period Western attire

A group of men on horseback are in a wooded area; one man holds a gun while another speaks to a dog. The transcript includes exclamations and dialogue about unidentified men and a dog that is told not to bark.

“Oh, my God.” 9:10 · “Who are those fellas?” 9:12 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 9:11 (passage 9:10–9:31); US record: No renewal found

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