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Under California Stars · Beat 71 · permalink

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15:18–15:40 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2615:26Frame at 15:3515:35Frame at 15:3815:38

Play from 15:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 40 · shots 186–188. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Roy Rogers (named at t:15:26): man wearing a cowboy hat and a dark patterned shirt, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing a dark patterned top, visible in close-up visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and vest, holding a small animal, standing behind others visible
  • man in blue shirt and cowboy hat, kneeling, holding a small animal visible
Seen happening
  • Roy Rogers is visually present and interacting with a woman. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat holds a small animal while others stand nearby. [frame:2]
  • Roy Rogers smiles while looking at someone off-screen. [frame:3]
Also said
“Roy Rogers!” 15:32 · “Wake up!” 15:38
Seen
cowboy hat, cowboy hat, cowboy hat, small animal (possibly a mouse), wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of surprise or exasperation; themes: introduction, humor, Western genre tropes; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, bright outdoor lighting, Western costume design

A man in a cowboy hat and a woman are shown in close proximity; the man is identified by name in the transcript. Another man in a cowboy hat is seen holding a small animal while others stand nearby. The scene appears to be outdoors with wooden structures visible.

“It was another mouse. Yeah, I thought it was. Uh, Carolyn, meet your boss.” 15:21 · “Roy Rogers? Yeah.” 15:26 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 15:26 (passage 15:18–15:40); US record: No renewal found

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