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A Star Is Born · Beat 132 · permalink

Private office

46:54–46:59 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:5746:57

Play from 46:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 328–328. 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-20s to 30s, fair skin, dark eyebrows, red lipstick, wearing white head covering and robe visible
  • hand and forearm visible, applying makeup with a brush visible
Seen
makeup brush [frame:1], bottles and jars on counter [frame:1], white robe and head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, preparatory; themes: preparation, performance, transformation; style notes: close-up framing, studio lighting, saturated color palette

A woman in a white head covering and robe is seated while another person applies makeup to her face. The setting appears to be a dressing room or makeup station with bottles and jars visible in the background.

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 46:57 (passage 46:54–46:59); US record: No renewal found

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