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A Star Is Born · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

45:10–45:35 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; 5 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 45:1145:11Frame at 45:2045:20Frame at 45:2645:26Frame at 45:3345:33

Play from 45:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 305–314. 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:3
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, mustache, wearing a light blue suit and tie visible
  • Vicky Lester (named at t:45:17): woman, blonde hair styled up, wearing a dark jacket over a light blouse with a bow collar visible, audible
  • woman, red hair, wearing a dark dress with a bow in her hair visible
  • man, wearing a light suit, entering through a doorway visible
  • person seated at a desk, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man enters the room through a doorway. [frame:3]
Also said
“Say it. - Vicky Lester. - Say it again. - Vicky Lester. - Say it again. - Vicky Lester.” 45:20 · “Vicky Lester! Say Vicky Lester. Vicky Lester. Vicky Lester. Vicky Lester. Vicky Lester.” 45:26
Seen
desk lamp [frame:1], office desk [frame:1], typewriter [frame:4], office chairs [frame:3], doorway [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful and directive; themes: identity creation, performance, naming; style notes: medium close-ups alternating with a wide shot; studio lighting; formal attire suggests a professional setting

A man and a woman are in an office-like interior; the woman is prompted to repeat the name 'Vicky Lester' multiple times. The scene includes a wider shot showing other people at desks and a man entering through a doorway.

“Siesta, besta, sesta, desta, festa.” 45:10 · “- Jester, Hester, Dester, Lester, Vicky Lester. - Oh, I like that.” 45:17 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 45:11 (passage 45:10–45:35); US record: No renewal found

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