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Under California Stars · Beat 53 · permalink

Field

9:52–10:13 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:539:53Frame at 9:589:58Frame at 10:0410:04Frame at 10:1110:11

Play from 9:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 107–114. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark jacket, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in blue shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, on horse visible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, on horse visible
  • man in light shirt, on horse, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark jacket is on top of another man in a blue shirt, grappling on the ground. [frame:1]
  • The man in the blue shirt is pinned to the ground by the other man. [frame:2]
  • The two men are no longer visible; the scene shows a rocky outcrop and dry brush. [frame:3]
  • A group of men on horseback approaches the area where the fight occurred. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:4], horses [frame:4], rocky outcrop [frame:3], dry brush [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor conflict, arrival of reinforcements; style notes: wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, medium-to-long distance framing

Two men fight on the ground in a dry, rocky outdoor setting; one man is on top, the other pinned below. A group of men on horseback approaches the scene from a distance.

“I'm going to go.” 9:54 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 9:53 (passage 9:52–10:13); US record: No renewal found

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