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Under California Stars · Beat 64 · permalink

Barn

13:39–13:58 Registered 1948

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.

Frame at 13:4413:44Frame at 13:5013:50Frame at 13:5313:53Frame at 13:5613:56

Play from 13:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 36 · shots 156–159. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
barn (farm, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, balding, middle-aged, standing with arm raised visible
  • man in cowboy hat and blue shirt, standing facing p1 visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing dark dress, standing beside a horse visible
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 13:49 · “Well, Junior, you look nice enough to go to church.” 13:55
Seen
sacks, cowboy hat, horse, ranch gate with skull, barn
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: family conflict, ranch life, departure; style notes: medium shots in barn interior, wide exterior shots of ranch, natural lighting in exteriors, studio lighting in interiors

Two men speak in a barn while a woman stands near a horse in a stable; one man mentions shipping someone off and references a dog named Trigger. The scene includes exterior shots of a ranch gate and barnyard.

“Between that dog and that stepson of yours, my patience is wearing out. Now, don't worry about him. I'm shipping him off pronto.” 13:39 · “I hope he didn't hear that crack about Trigger.” 13:46 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 13:44 (passage 13:39–13:58); US record: No renewal found

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