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Under California Stars · Beat 90 · permalink

Field

22:05–22:40 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; 7 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 22:1322:13Frame at 22:2122:21Frame at 22:3122:31

Play from 22:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 247–249. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, seen from back visible
  • Roy (named at t:22:26): man in dark vest and cowboy hat, holding a stick visible, audible
  • Carolyn (named at t:22:07): woman in denim shirt and overalls, smiling visible, audible
  • boy in plaid shirt, seen from back visible
  • Pumey (named at t:22:18): man in dark vest and cowboy hat, speaking to Roy visible, audible
  • Tramp (named at t:22:18): man in dark vest and cowboy hat, speaking to Roy visible, audible
  • Cuddin Cookie (named at t:22:22): man in dark vest and cowboy hat, speaking to Roy visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stand together, talking about a horse race. [frame:1]
  • A horse and a dog stand together on a dirt path. [frame:2]
  • The group continues their conversation, with one man designated as the starter. [frame:3]
Also said
“You'll be the official starter, Cuddin Cookie.” 22:22 · “Oh, now, wait a minute, Roy. You can tell by looking at him. He's not one of us. We were bigger than that when we were born. Now, get in there and start the race. Go on, go on. Get on your marks. Get set.” 22:26
Seen
cowboy hat, stick, horse, dog, denim shirt, plaid shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and playful; themes: competition, comedy, Western culture; style notes: Western genre, outdoor setting, natural lighting, medium shots of characters interacting

A group of people in Western attire prepare for a race between a horse and a dog, with one man designated as the starter. The setting is outdoors near a wooden structure, with the horse and dog shown together on a dirt path.

“Hi Carolyn. Hi. Gonna stick around for the big horse race? Who do you think will win? The world's fastest dog or the world's fastest horse? He better bet on my side Carolyn.” 22:07 · “Damn, Pumey, he was ready. Didn't you, Tramp?” 22:18 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 22:13 (passage 22:05–22:40); US record: No renewal found

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