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Under California Stars · Beat 56 · permalink

Field

10:38–11:11 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:4310:43Frame at 10:5310:53Frame at 10:5910:59Frame at 11:0911:09

Play from 10:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 118–124. 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 in blue shirt and bandana, kneeling beside a horse visible
  • man in cowboy hat and brown jacket, mounted on a horse visible
  • man in light hat and dark jacket, mounted on a horse visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a fallen horse. [frame:1]
  • Two men on horseback observe the scene. [frame:2]
  • Horses begin to move away. [frame:3]
  • Horses gallop away, kicking up dust. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on now, on your feet. Lead the rest of your pals back out on the range. Come on, fella.” 10:44 · “Oh, my God.” 10:49
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:2], saddles [frame:2], dust [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, outdoor labor, cowboy culture; style notes: wide outdoor shots, natural lighting, dynamic movement in later frames

A man in a blue shirt tends to a fallen horse while two other men on horseback observe; the horses then move away. One speaker urges the man to get up and lead his group back out.

“Take it easy, fella.” 10:40 · “You're not hurt so bad.” 10:42 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 10:43 (passage 10:38–11:11); US record: No renewal found

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