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Under California Stars · Beat 9 · permalink

Bar

2:58–3:30 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; 8 names 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 3:073:07Frame at 3:193:19Frame at 3:263:26

Play from 2:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 14–16. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing at bar visible
  • man in blue shirt and suspenders, standing at bar visible
  • man in light shirt, facing bar visible
  • man in dark shirt, seated at bar visible
  • man in dark shirt, visible in vehicle window visible
  • man in light shirt, visible in vehicle window visible
  • Cookie (named at t:2:59): man speaking, not visible in frames audible
  • Val (named at t:2:59): man speaking, not visible in frames audible
Seen happening
  • Men gather inside a bar, looking toward a window or door. [frame:1]
  • A wood-paneled vehicle is seen with people inside. [frame:2]
  • Men at the bar react with surprise or anticipation. [frame:3]
  • A man in a blue shirt and suspenders is visible among the group at the bar. [frame:1]
Also said
“- That's a big movie star! - Not Roy, he'll always be the same old horse rank.” 3:12 · “All you loyal subjects, it's the time to bow your heads and pay homage to the king who's come to greet us. Here, here! Right-o.” 3:21
Seen
wood-paneled vehicle [frame:2], bar counter [frame:1], piano [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], window with view of trees [frame:1], suspended ceiling light [frame:1], wooden door frame [frame:1], glass bottles on bar [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory and playful; themes: arrival, celebrity, comradery, humor; style notes: medium shots of group interactions, warm interior lighting, rustic set design

A group of men in a rustic interior react to someone arriving in a wood-paneled vehicle. One man addresses others as 'Cookie' and 'Val' while announcing the arrival, and another calls the arriving person a 'big movie star'.

“Hey, Cookie! Hey, Val! Hey, fellas, I saw him coming! He's coming down the road! Come on!” 2:59 · “It's right! It's right! It's right! It's right! Come on! Come on! Come on! I wonder if Roy and Drago have changed and...” 3:03 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 3:07 (passage 2:58–3:30); US record: No renewal found

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