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Under California Stars · Beat 51 · permalink

Forest

9:40–9:49 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; 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 9:429:42Frame at 9:469:46

Play from 9:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 104–105. 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
People
  • man in dark shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
  • boy, young, wearing light shirt and dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • One man raises his arm as if to strike another man. [frame:1]
  • A boy sits beside a dog in a wooded area. [frame:2]
Seen
dog [frame:2], tree [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: conflict, childhood innocence, nature as backdrop; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, handheld or static camera, no studio staging

Two men are shown in a physical altercation outdoors, followed by a boy sitting beside a dog in a wooded area. No names are spoken, and no specific location or time of day is established.

“Boy, that'll teach him.” 9:43 · “What side do you want?” 9:47 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 9:42 (passage 9:40–9:49); US record: No renewal found

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