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A Star Is Born · Beat 127 · permalink

Film set

45:53–46:02 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5445:54Frame at 45:5645:56Frame at 45:5845:58Frame at 46:0046:00

Play from 45:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 316–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
film_set (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress with puffed sleeves and blue sash, red hair visible
  • man, dark short-sleeved shirt, light pants, seated visible
  • man, light-colored pants and dark top, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks down a set of stairs on a film set. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands with one hand on her hip, looking toward the seated man. [frame:3]
  • The seated man gestures with his hand while looking up. [frame:4]
Seen
staircase set [frame:1], director's chair [frame:2], film camera [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: directive; themes: filmmaking, direction, performance; style notes: studio-lit, staged, medium shots with visible set construction

A woman in a light dress stands on a set of stairs while a man in a dark shirt sits nearby; another man is visible in the background. The transcript includes shouted directions about movement.

“Not that way!” 45:56 · “Get the lead out of your feet. Lift them up.” 45:59 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 45:54 (passage 45:53–46:02); US record: No renewal found

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