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Under California Stars · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

13:16–13:39 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:1813:18Frame at 13:2313:23Frame at 13:2813:28Frame at 13:3713:37

Play from 13:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 149–155. 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:1
People
  • man wearing a dark shirt and hat, standing behind a desk visible
  • man wearing a vest and shirt, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Lloyd (named at t:13:32): man wearing a light shirt and hat, standing near doorway visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The dog is shown holding a no-sale stamp in its mouth. [frame:3]
  • A man kneels beside the dog outside. [frame:4]
Also said
“I can't even find my no-sale stamp anymore. Let me handle this.” 13:22 · “But I'll break him up stealing, Lloyd.” 13:32
Seen
desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], no-sale stamp [frame:3], dog [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict over property, animal behavior, authority and discipline; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting, static framing

A man in a private office argues with another man about a dog that has stolen a no-sale stamp; the dog is later shown holding the stamp outside. One man insists the dog be removed, while the other claims he can train it.

“Yeah, come back here with that!” 13:17 · “That dog steals everything around here.” 13:20 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 13:18 (passage 13:16–13:39); US record: No renewal found

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