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A Star Is Born · Beat 118 · permalink

Private office

42:29–42:51 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:3242:32Frame at 42:3842:38Frame at 42:4442:44Frame at 42:4842:48

Play from 42:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 72 · shots 280–284. 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:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing a light-colored suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, young, curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a patterned scarf visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman smiles while listening. [frame:4]
Also said
“I think I'm going to like you.” 42:39 · “I think the public will like you.” 42:44
Seen
desk [frame:2], desk lamp [frame:2], chair [frame:2], curtains [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, evaluative; themes: public image, personal evaluation, professional assessment; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal framing with subjects seated across a desk

A man in a suit speaks to a woman seated across a desk in an office; she smiles in response. The dialogue suggests he is evaluating her for public appeal.

“But I rather believe that tastes change, like eyebrows. And I think that also like eyebrows, tastes are going back to the natural.” 42:29 · “You look like a nice girl.” 42:36 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 42:32 (passage 42:29–42:51); US record: No renewal found

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