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A Star Is Born · Beat 111 · permalink

Studio

40:13–40:27 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:1440:14Frame at 40:2240:22

Play from 40:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 251–252. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • bald man with mustache, wearing dark robe over light shirt visible
Seen
call sheet, robe
On screen
Oliver Niles Productions CALL SHEET Date Fed. Director GARDEN SET tien STAGE SOUND NAME Time Called Maine Boulevard Silk as fitted
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: technical and focused; themes: film production, behind-the-scenes, lighting setup; style notes: studio lighting with high contrast, close-up framing on subject, call sheet as diegetic prop

A man in a robe is visible on set while crew members adjust lighting equipment. A call sheet from Oliver Niles Productions lists names and call times for a garden set.

“Oh.” 40:15 · “Move that gobo in. Put the silk on that barrage. No, the achy. Is this light too hot for you, Hanley? Okay, but put that on the back way. Put a gobo on that 90. Bring it down a little. That's it.” 40:25 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 A Star Is Born (1937) at 40:14 (passage 40:13–40:27); US record: No renewal found

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