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A Star Is Born · Beat 131 · permalink

Private office

46:38–46:54 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4046:40Frame at 46:4346:43Frame at 46:4646:46Frame at 46:5146:51

Play from 46:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 324–327. 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, light-skinned, wearing white head covering and robe, seated visible
  • man, older, balding, wears glasses and white coat, holding makeup brush visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, mustache, wears white coat with tools in pocket visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits in a makeup chair while a man applies makeup to her face. [frame:1]
  • Two men in white coats converse while standing close together. [frame:2]
  • A man uses his hands to stretch the woman's face while she smiles widely. [frame:3]
  • The two men continue talking, with a woman now visible behind one of them. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, well. Give her that Crawford Smith.” 46:48 · “Who?” 46:52
Seen
makeup brush, white coats, makeup tools in pocket, head covering
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: clinical and conversational; themes: makeup application, beauty standards, collaborative decision-making; style notes: close-up shots, studio lighting, focused on facial expressions and interaction

A woman sits in a makeup chair while two men in white coats apply makeup and discuss her appearance. One man suggests giving her a 'Crawford Smith' look, prompting a question from the other.

“Anyway, it's just a rough sketch.” 46:40 · “Pretty small mouth, eh?” 46:42 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 46:40 (passage 46:38–46:54); US record: No renewal found

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