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Under California Stars · Beat 61 · permalink

Private office

12:44–12:57 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; 2 names 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 12:4712:47Frame at 12:5212:52Frame at 12:5512:55

Play from 12:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 36 · shots 141–143. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, dark shirt, and neckerchief, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, light vest over shirt, seated at a desk, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • The first man reacts with surprise or curiosity. [frame:3]
Also said
“What I'm thinking about now is one horse.” 12:48 · “Yeah, but Rogers. Roy Rogers! And the smartest horse in pictures.” 12:50
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], desk with papers and lamp [frame:2], sign reading 'OFFICE' and 'PURCHASE INVEST' [frame:2], window with outdoor view [frame:2]
On screen
OFFICE / PURCHASE INVEST
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly humorous; themes: Western genre, film industry reference, horse as character; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, Western costume design

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in an office setting, one seated at a desk and the other in a chair opposite. The transcript mentions 'Range horses' and 'Roy Rogers', indicating a discussion about horses, possibly in a film context.

“Range horses.” 12:45 · “Well, that's just chicken feed.” 12:46 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 12:47 (passage 12:44–12:57); US record: No renewal found

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