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Under California Stars · Beat 93 · permalink

Farm

23:34–23:52 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; 5 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 23:3723:37Frame at 23:4323:43Frame at 23:4723:47Frame at 23:5023:50

Play from 23:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 270–276. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, boots visible
  • boy in striped shirt and pants visible
  • woman in light shirt and dark pants visible
  • man in dark hat and shirt, holding a rifle visible
  • dog, medium build, light coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands with others near a horse. [frame:1]
  • A boy stands beside a large horse. [frame:2]
  • The man in the cowboy hat reaches toward the horse's head. [frame:3]
  • A dog sits on the ground near the group. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm not mad at you. Come on, Tramp.” 23:43 · “Farrah!” 23:49
Seen
horse, rifle, cowboy hat, dog
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, outdoorsy; themes: Western, animal companionship, rural life; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting, rustic setting, Western attire

A group of people, including a man in a cowboy hat and a boy, stand near a large horse in a rustic outdoor setting. A dog appears in the final frame as someone calls out a name.

“Attaboy, Trigger. See, I told you so. Well?” 23:34 · “Trigger one.” 23:38 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 23:37 (passage 23:34–23:52); US record: No renewal found

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