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Under California Stars · Beat 92 · permalink

Field

23:11–23:34 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 23:1323:13Frame at 23:1923:19Frame at 23:2523:25Frame at 23:3123:31

Play from 23:11 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 263–269. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • Sam (named at t:23:12): man wearing a cowboy hat, striped shirt, and neckerchief visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A small dog runs on a dirt track. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat speaks. [frame:2]
  • A horse runs on a dirt track with a small dog nearby. [frame:3]
  • A horse runs under a wooden gate with a circular emblem. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat, striped shirt, neckerchief, small dog, horse, wooden gate with circular emblem
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: racing, urgency, outdoor activity; style notes: medium close-up on speaker, wide shots of action; natural outdoor lighting with strong shadows

A man in a cowboy hat speaks while a horse and a small dog run on a dirt track toward a wooden gate. The dialogue refers to a 'homestretch,' suggesting a race or timed run.

“- Sam, come on! He's going back to the homestretch.” 23:12 · “- Well, he'd better hurry up. This is the homestretch.” 23:12 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 23:13 (passage 23:11–23:34); US record: No renewal found

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