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Under California Stars · Beat 59 · permalink

Barn

11:55–12:21 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0812:08

Play from 11:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 136–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barn (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, and trousers, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man is standing inside a wooden structure. [frame:1]
Also said
“We lost the herd.” 12:11 · “Rogers and his gang from the double R ranch jumped us.” 12:13
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], wooden interior with beams and tools [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, loss, cowboy culture; style notes: medium shot, static framing, interior lighting, rustic setting

A man in cowboy attire stands inside a wooden interior, possibly a barn or stable, as dialogue reveals a herd was lost and Rogers' gang attacked. The scene includes spoken references to a cowboy, a lost herd, and a lesson in self-defense.

“He's hearing the cowboy bustin' a bronch and he can't find a darn thing.” 11:56 · “Well, Pop?” 12:10 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 12:08 (passage 11:55–12:21); US record: No renewal found

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