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A Star Is Born · Beat 105 · permalink

Private office

38:55–39:12 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0039:00Frame at 39:0939:09

Play from 38:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 244–245. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: t:39:01
People
  • balding man with mustache, wearing dark robe over light shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands in a dim room, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • The man walks away from the camera toward a doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“Would you give him a message for me?” 38:58 · “Tell them it's three o'clock in the morning!” 39:01
Seen
robe [frame:1, frame:2], vase [frame:2], hanging lamp [frame:2], table [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, late-night urgency; themes: late-night communication, urgency, personal message delivery; style notes: low-key lighting, shadowy interior, medium shots focusing on character movement and expression

A man in a robe is seen in a dimly lit interior, speaking about delivering a message at three o'clock in the morning. He walks away from the camera toward a doorway, passing a table with a vase.

“Come on.” 38:55 · “And this Plodgett...” 38:57 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 A Star Is Born (1937) at 39:00 (passage 38:55–39:12); US record: No renewal found

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