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A Star Is Born · Beat 101 · permalink

Bedroom

36:34–37:15 Registered 1937

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3836:38Frame at 36:5836:58

Play from 36:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 237–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:36:50
People
  • man with mustache, wearing striped pajamas, lying in bed visible, audible
  • Oliver (named at t:36:43): man in dark suit, standing beside bed visible
Seen happening
  • A man in pajamas is lying in bed holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands beside the bed, leaning over it. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'll come back.” 37:05 · “Oh, that color.” 37:12
Seen
telephone receiver, bed, alarm clock, lamp, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, slightly tense; themes: late-night conversation, personal address, departure; style notes: close framing on characters, dim lighting with strong shadows, static camera

A man is seen in bed speaking on the phone while another man in a suit stands beside the bed. The dialogue includes farewells and a comment about color, suggesting a late-night conversation ending with one person preparing to leave.

“Oliver.” 36:43 · “Good night.” 36:50 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 A Star Is Born (1937) at 36:38 (passage 36:34–37:15); US record: No renewal found

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