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A Star Is Born · Beat 139 · permalink

Restaurant

48:32–48:44 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3648:36Frame at 48:4048:40Frame at 48:4348:43

Play from 48:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 337–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, red hair, wearing a dark dress with white collar and bow visible
  • man, wearing plaid jacket and fedora visible
Seen happening
  • Woman holds spoon near mouth, appears to be eating or reacting [frame:1]
  • Man drinks from glass [frame:2]
  • Woman reacts with surprise, hands near face [frame:3]
Also said
“All right.” 48:41
Seen
spoon, glass, plaid jacket, fedora, white collar dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or surprised; themes: miscommunication, social interaction; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, dramatic framing

A woman in a dark dress with a white collar sits at a table, reacting with surprise while holding a spoon; a man in a plaid jacket and fedora drinks from a glass. The dialogue indicates someone named Smith is not present.

“Acme” 48:34 · “No, Smith ain't in.” 48:35 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 48:36 (passage 48:32–48:44); US record: No renewal found

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