Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 36 · shots 137–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man seated at desk, wearing light shirt, dark vest, holding pipe visible
- man standing, wearing dark shirt, cowboy hat, dark neckerchief visible, audible
- man standing, wearing dark shirt, cowboy hat, light vest visible, audible
- Also said
- “Well, I'm sore. Where were you when I was taking that beating? Yeah.” 12:30 · “We'd better round them up before Rogers gets everybody thinking his way and they run us out.” 12:41
- Seen
- desk, pipe, lamp, sign reading 'OFFICE PUJORDAN STOCK', cowboy hats, neckerchief
- On screen
- OFFICE PUJORDAN STOCK
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, responsibility, financial pressure; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, studio lighting, Western costume and set design
Three men are in an office, one seated at a desk and two standing, discussing a lost herd and a contract. One man is visibly upset about being left alone during a beating and mentions rounding up horses before someone named Rogers influences others.
“Where were you?” 12:21 · “Boy, you were a sucker for those lefts. Yes, sir, we could use that money. Get out here now, fellas!” 12:23 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/under_california_stars/b60.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite