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19:12–19:15 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 19:1419:14

Play from 19:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 220–220. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored shirt and blue jeans, seen from back visible
  • partial figure in foreground, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • figures in background, indistinct, some wearing hats visible
Seen
wall [frame:1], clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: confrontation, group dynamics; style notes: medium shot from behind subject, shallow depth of field, low-key lighting

A man in a light shirt and blue jeans stands with his back to the camera, facing a group of people in a dimly lit interior space. The scene is framed from behind the man, with other figures partially visible in the foreground and background.

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 19:14 (passage 19:12–19:15); US record: No renewal found

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