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Under California Stars · Beat 84 · permalink

Bar

20:22–20:35 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:2320:23Frame at 20:2820:28Frame at 20:3320:33

Play from 20:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 234–236. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Roy (named at t:20:23): man, cowboy hat, light shirt, holding a dog visible, audible
  • man, cowboy hat, dark shirt, smiling visible
  • man, cowboy hat, dark jacket, standing behind bar visible
  • woman, denim shirt, short hair visible
  • boy, dark hair, denim shirt visible
  • man, cowboy hat, light shirt, facing away visible
  • man, cowboy hat, holding cards visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a dog and speaks to others. [frame:1]
  • A group gathers around a dog held by a man. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat speaks while others stand near a bar. [frame:3]
Also said
“That's a deal.” 20:26 · “Come on, Tramp. Maybe we can even find a bone for Tramp.” 20:28
Seen
dog [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:2], bar counter [frame:3], cards [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and friendly; themes: comradeship, Western setting, informal negotiation; style notes: medium shots, warm lighting, wooden interior, cowboy attire suggests Western genre

A man in a cowboy hat holds a dog while speaking to others in a wooden interior; a group gathers around the dog, and one man addresses another as 'Tramp'. The scene includes multiple men in cowboy hats and a woman in a denim shirt.

“Now that you're working for him, he just called me Roy.” 20:23 · “You got me 10.” 20:25 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 20:23 (passage 20:22–20:35); US record: No renewal found

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