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A Star Is Born · Beat 114 · permalink

Film set

41:11–41:32 Registered 1937

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; 7 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 41:1541:15Frame at 41:2141:21Frame at 41:2441:24Frame at 41:2941:29

Play from 41:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 259–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
film_set (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in brown jacket and light pants, standing, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in dark jacket, standing, mid-30s, average build visible
  • Mr. Burke (named at t:41:17): man in dark suit, standing, mid-30s, average build visible
  • Mr. Martin (named at t:41:17): man in dark suit, standing, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, mid-30s, average build audible
Also said
“Ready, Mr. Burke. Ready now, Mr. Burke. Ready now, Mr. Burke. All righty, Mr. Burke. We're ready, Mr. Burke.” 41:20 · “All right, let's take it.” 41:30
Seen
film camera, boom microphone, studio lighting, fedora hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: preparatory, focused; themes: filmmaking process, behind-the-scenes, professional collaboration; style notes: studio-lit, medium shots, static camera, period costumes

A film crew prepares for a take on a set, with crew members and actors visible. A voice calls out instructions to 'Mr. Burke' and announces readiness to begin filming.

“Listen, gentlemen, please, if you don't mind...” 41:11 · “This is just a test! Ready, Mr. Martin!” 41:17 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 41:15 (passage 41:11–41:32); US record: No renewal found

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