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A Star Is Born · Beat 129 · permalink

Private office

46:13–46:30 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:1646:16Frame at 46:2546:25

Play from 46:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 321–322. 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
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a tan dress, standing, holding a book visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a dark suit, seated, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands reading from a book in a room with large windows and framed pictures. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit sits in a chair, smiling. [frame:2]
Also said
“Through the mouth, my child, through the mouth.” 46:19 · “The nose is for smelling roses.” 46:22
Seen
book [frame:1], chair [frame:1], large windows [frame:1], framed pictures [frame:1], curtains [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic and instructional; themes: performance, instruction, dialogue; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal framing, static camera

A woman in a tan dress stands reading from a book in a room with large windows and framed pictures, while a man in a dark suit sits in a chair facing her. The transcript includes lines about mercy, rain, and speaking through the mouth, suggesting a dramatic or instructional moment.

“The quality of mercy is not strained.” 46:13 · “It drunken as a gentle rain from heaven. Peace.” 46:16 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 46:16 (passage 46:13–46:30); US record: No renewal found

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