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A Star Is Born · Beat 12 · permalink

Living room

6:02–6:29 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; 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 6:166:16

Play from 6:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 35–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • elderly woman, white hair, wearing dark coat, seated visible, audible
Also said
“I buried him out there on that woodland with my own hands.” 6:16 · “and I get right on you.” 6:23
Seen
framed photograph [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], armchair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, reflective; themes: grief, resilience, memory; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on seated subject, high contrast between light and shadow

An elderly woman speaks in a dimly lit interior, recalling her late husband and her resolve to continue after his death. She mentions burying him herself and carrying on despite personal loss.

“I was in love with your grandfather.” 6:03 · “When some Indian devil put a bullet through him...” 6:05 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 6:16 (passage 6:02–6:29); US record: No renewal found

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