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Under California Stars · Beat 62 · permalink

Private office

12:57–13:16 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:5712:57Frame at 12:5912:59Frame at 13:0313:03Frame at 13:1013:10

Play from 12:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 144–148. 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 dark hat and shirt, standing behind a desk visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing vest and tie, balding visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing hat and dark shirt visible
  • large shaggy dog visible
Seen happening
  • A dog enters the office through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • The dog climbs onto the desk while the men look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“I know, but it's way past lunchtime and I'm hungry.” 13:09 · “Get yourself something to eat. Thanks. Come on, Trent.” 13:13
Seen
wooden door with diagonal brace, desk lamp, papers on desk, dog climbing on desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but humorous; themes: disruption of order, animal intrusion, workplace dynamics; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting, static camera, period costumes

A dog enters an office where three men are seated; one man scolds the dog while another speaks to it about being hungry. The dog climbs onto a desk as the men react.

“Get that flea-bitten Australian coyote out of here. Tramp!” 13:00 · “Come here. Haven't I told you not to come in here when we're busy?” 13:05 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 12:57 (passage 12:57–13:16); US record: No renewal found

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