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A Star Is Born · Beat 126 · permalink

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45:35–45:53 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; 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 45:4445:44

Play from 45:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 315–315. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated, mid-adult, medium build visible
Also said
“Those who have peaked tell me she couldn't be more divoon. The face of an angel and such natural talents. Her voice is a symphony. Her very walk, they tell me, is enough to drive men mad.” 45:42
Seen
microphone, clock reading 'ON THE AIR', desk, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic, promotional; themes: discovery of talent, media hype, celebrity creation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, studio setting with visible equipment

A man in a suit is visible in a dimly lit studio control room, seated at a desk with a microphone and a clock reading 'ON THE AIR' above him. The transcript introduces a new starlet named Vicki Lester, described as having angelic features and natural talent.

“Oliver Nile's studio discovers new starlet, a Cinderella of the Rockies.” 45:36 · “Her name is Vicki Lester.” 45:40 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 45:44 (passage 45:35–45:53); US record: No renewal found

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