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Under California Stars · Beat 54 · permalink

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10:13–10:37 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:2210:22Frame at 10:3410:34

Play from 10:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 115–116. 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 dark shirt and cowboy hat, bending over another man visible
  • man wearing blue shirt and jeans, standing upright visible, audible
  • man lying on ground, wearing dark clothes visible
  • man in light shirt and pants, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat bends over a man lying on the ground. [frame:1]
  • A horse lies on the ground as men stand nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“Anybody can catch wild horses on open range. Not the way you're doing it.” 10:24 · “I got some work to do.” 10:30
Seen
cowboy hat, horse lying on ground, brush and trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, outdoor labor, animal handling; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men stand over a third man lying on the ground in a brushy outdoor area; one man urges the others to leave while the other speaks about catching wild horses. A horse lies on the ground nearby as the men disperse.

“Okay, he's had enough, Roy. Come on, get up.” 10:17 · “All right, clear out of here.” 10:22 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 10:22 (passage 10:13–10:37); US record: No renewal found

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