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A Star Is Born · Beat 138 · permalink

Restaurant

47:54–48:32 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 48:0048:00Frame at 48:2048:20

Play from 47:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 335–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a plaid overcoat and a dark fedora, seated at a counter visible, audible
  • woman, older, wearing a blue waitress uniform and white cap, standing behind the counter visible, audible
Also said
“The Ockney Trucking Company?” 48:16 · “He's not in.” 48:29
Seen
diner counter [frame:1], plaid overcoat [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:2], waitress uniform [frame:1], soda bottle [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tense; themes: romantic proposal, miscommunication, diner setting; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a plaid coat and fedora sits at a diner counter speaking with a waitress in a blue uniform. The conversation involves a marriage proposal and a phone call to a trucking company, which is misidentified before being corrected to Mr. Smythe.

“Good morning. What can I bring you, Mr. Mayne? That just shows how long you've been here. Naval bless you.” 47:55 · “How soon are you and I going to be married? I don't know. You'll have to ask my mother.” 48:01 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 48:00 (passage 47:54–48:32); US record: No renewal found

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