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Under California Stars · Beat 95 · permalink

Stable

24:15–24:45 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:1624:16Frame at 24:2724:27Frame at 24:2924:29Frame at 24:4324:43

Play from 24:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 281–286. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stable (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Ted (named at t:24:23): boy, dark hair, wearing a plaid shirt and dark pants, seated on a horse visible, audible
  • Pop (named at t:24:17): older man, wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, standing beside the horse visible, audible
  • Lodge McFarlane (named at t:24:29): man in a cowboy hat and light shirt, standing and talking to another man visible, audible
  • Mr. Rogers (named at t:24:33): man in a dark shirt and cowboy hat, facing Lodge McFarlane visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Ted greets Pop while seated on a horse. [frame:1]
  • Lodge McFarlane and Mr. Rogers converse face-to-face. [frame:2]
  • Ted looks toward the men while seated on the horse. [frame:3]
  • Ted speaks with a surprised expression while on the horse. [frame:4]
Also said
“This is Lodge McFarlane, the boy's tip top.” 24:29 · “You're not mad at me for... River Wayne? No, no. There won't be any more running away, will there, Ted?” 24:43
Seen
{'item': 'horse', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'plaid shirt', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'stable interior with wooden walls', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reconciliatory and hopeful; themes: family reunion, second chances, ranch life; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots in a dimly lit interior, using naturalistic lighting to emphasize character interaction

A boy named Ted, seated on a horse, speaks with an older man called Pop and another man named Lodge McFarlane in a stable-like interior. The conversation confirms Ted has been given a job at the ranch and is invited to stay, with a condition that he will not run away again.

“Hi, Pop.” 24:17 · “Roy, boy, how be you? Glad to see you back. Good to see you too, Pop.” 24:18 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 24:16 (passage 24:15–24:45); US record: No renewal found

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