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Under California Stars · Beat 7 · permalink

Road

2:43–2:55 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:452:45Frame at 2:472:47Frame at 2:532:53Frame at 2:542:54

Play from 2:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 8–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and bandana, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man drives a truck on a dusty road. [frame:1]
  • The driver is seen smiling inside the vehicle. [frame:2]
  • A horse named Trigger is visible in a trailer attached to the truck. [frame:3]
  • The driver continues to smile while driving. [frame:4]
Seen
vintage truck, cowboy hat, horse named Trigger, trailer with 'TRIGGER' text, R logo on trailer
On screen
TRIGGER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and purposeful; themes: travel, western setting, companion animal; style notes: medium close-ups of driver, wide shot of truck on road, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a cowboy hat drives a vintage truck on a dusty road, with a horse named Trigger visible in a trailer. The driver speaks, saying he is going to go.

“I'm going to go.” 2:46 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 2:45 (passage 2:43–2:55); US record: No renewal found

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