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Under California Stars · Beat 98 · permalink

Living room

25:20–26:03 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4225:42

Play from 25:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 294–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: t:25:53
People
  • man, wearing a blue shirt with white fringe and a patterned neckerchief visible
  • man, wearing a brown and white plaid shirt and a polka-dot tie visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned blouse visible
Mentioned
  • Guests in the ranch living room are being served cake. [t:25:53]
  • Roy is called upon to sing a song. [t:25:57]
Also said
“It's so pretty, I kind of hate to cut it. Yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen. This beautiful anniversary cake...” 25:41 · “We're going to call upon Roy to give us one of the songs that helped make him king of the cowboys.” 25:57
Seen
fringed shirt [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], patterned blouse [frame:1], necktie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: festive and casual; themes: celebration, western attire, broadcast event; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, costume-driven framing

A man in a fringed shirt and another man in a plaid shirt stand beside a woman in a patterned blouse; the transcript mentions an anniversary cake and a broadcast. No names are spoken that can be assigned to the visible people.

“Be a good boy, Ted. Do what Mr. Rogers tells you. There's your stuff.” 25:20 · “You know you're both invited to Roy's anniversary broadcast tonight, don't you?” 25:25 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 25:42 (passage 25:20–26:03); US record: No renewal found

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