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Under California Stars · Beat 91 · permalink

Field

22:40–23:11 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:4022:40Frame at 22:5122:51Frame at 23:0123:01Frame at 23:1023:10

Play from 22:40 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 50 · shots 250–262. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Tramp (named at t:22:42): boy, young, wearing plaid shirt visible, audible
  • man, adult, wearing cowboy hat and vest, holding stick visible
  • woman, adult, wearing western-style shirt, hands cupped around mouth visible
Seen happening
  • A dog and a horse stand together on a dirt path in a field. [frame:1]
  • A boy cups his hands around his mouth as if shouting. [frame:2]
  • The boy is shown shouting with mouth wide open. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman both cup their hands around their mouths, appearing to shout. [frame:4]
Seen
dog [frame:1], horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:4], stick [frame:4], plaid shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: encouragement, outdoor activity, animal-human interaction; style notes: medium close-ups on faces with hands cupped to emphasize shouting; outdoor natural lighting; western costume elements

A boy and adults shout encouragement to a dog named Tramp near a horse in an outdoor setting. The scene includes close-ups of the boy and adults with hands cupped around their mouths, suggesting they are calling out loudly.

“Go! Come on, Tramp! Come on, boy! Come on, Tramp! Come on! Come on, Tramp! Come on! Come on, Tramp! Think of your reputation! Come on, Tramp! Come on! Come on, Tramp! Run! Come on, boy! Come on, Tramp! Come on, Tramp! Come on, Tramp! Come on, Tramp! Come on, Tramp! Come on!” 22:42 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 22:40 (passage 22:40–23:11); US record: No renewal found

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