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A Star Is Born · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

7:19–7:33 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 7:207:20Frame at 7:237:23Frame at 7:267:26Frame at 7:307:30

Play from 7:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 38–41. 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 with reddish hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark collar or scarf, holding a dark object visible, audible
  • older person with white hair, wearing a dark coat or robe, standing in shadow visible, audible
Also said
“If you do...” 7:28 · “I'll have you arrested for robbing me.” 7:30
Seen
dark object held by woman, dark coat or robe worn by older person
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: secrecy, threat, power imbalance; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, high contrast between light and shadow

A woman and an older person are in a dimly lit interior; the woman speaks a promise and the older person threatens consequences if the promise is broken. No names are spoken, and no objects or time indicators are visible.

“by giving me your word of honor that you will never tell a living soul where you got that love.” 7:21 · “I promise. Remember?” 7:26 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 7:20 (passage 7:19–7:33); US record: No renewal found

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