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A Star Is Born · Beat 120 · permalink

Private office

43:26–43:48 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 43:3743:37

Play from 43:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 290–290. 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:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark suit, seated behind desk with typewriter visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress or jacket, seated facing p1 visible
Also said
“"Pray saw light of day in a mountain cabin, a trapper's hut,” 43:43
Seen
typewriter, desk, tall decorative vase or trophy, curtained window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, conversational; themes: identity, origin, conversation; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal framing, period costume

A man and a woman sit across from each other at a desk in an interior setting; the man speaks while the woman listens. The transcript includes a question about nationality and a reference to a mountain cabin.

“Are you a Russian?” 43:35 · “No, I was born in Fillmore, North Dakota. Oh, no.” 43:38 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 43:37 (passage 43:26–43:48); US record: No renewal found

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