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Under California Stars · Beat 94 · permalink

Farm

23:52–24:15 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; 4 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 24:0024:00Frame at 24:0924:09Frame at 24:1124:11Frame at 24:1324:13

Play from 23:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 277–280. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • adult male, wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, and neckerchief visible, audible
  • boy, wearing plaid shirt and dark pants visible
  • adult male, wearing dark coat and cowboy hat, seen from behind on horseback visible
  • adult male, wearing dark coat and cowboy hat, seen from behind on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a boy sit near a horse while the man speaks. [frame:1]
  • Two riders pass through a wooden gate with a circular emblem. [frame:2]
  • The boy sits on a horse next to the man, who is smiling. [frame:3]
  • Two men on horseback are near a barn with a U.S. Mail box visible. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why?” 23:58 · “Because you can holler, come on, louder than I can. Trigger's legs are a little bit longer, too. How about taking a long ride on the winter?” 23:59
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], horse [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], wooden gate with circular emblem [frame:2], barn [frame:4], U.S. Mail box [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and casual; themes: childhood play, Western rural life, horseback riding; style notes: medium and wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, rustic Western setting

A man and a boy interact near a horse in a rustic outdoor setting; two riders then pass through a wooden gate with a circular emblem, and later, two men on horseback are seen near a barn. The dialogue suggests a playful challenge about who can shout louder and mentions taking a long ride.

“Trapp, that was a good try. Roy? Mm-hmm.” 23:53 · “You know why trigger one?” 23:57 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 24:00 (passage 23:52–24:15); US record: No renewal found

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