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A Star Is Born · Beat 109 · permalink

Bedroom

39:46–40:02 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:5439:54

Play from 39:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 249–249. 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
People
  • standing, wearing a patterned robe, dark hair visible, audible
  • sitting on bed, wearing red garment, light hair visible
Seen happening
  • One person stands beside a bed where another sits. [frame:1]
Seen
bed [frame:1], patterned robe [frame:1], red garment [frame:1], wall lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, quiet; themes: personal conversation, film industry reference; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing

Two people are in a dimly lit room; one stands while the other sits on a bed. One person speaks about taking something, and mentions Garbo's assistant.

“I'm taking one too.” 39:55 · “And Garbo's assistant.” 39:58 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 39:54 (passage 39:46–40:02); US record: No renewal found

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