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A Star Is Born · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

48:46–49:32 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 49:0449:04Frame at 49:2749:27

Play from 48:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 341–342. 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 dark curled hair, wearing a dark dress with white collar and cuffs visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a grey suit, white shirt, and red tie visible, audible
Also said
“Can't seem to get the right girl for the lead.” 49:14 · “He's got to be little and cute and sweet” 49:22
Seen
{'item': 'table with plates and glasses', 'frame': 1}, {'item': "man's grey suit and red tie", 'frame': 1}, {'item': "woman's dark dress with white collar", 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: ambition, romantic conflict, film industry casting; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man and a woman sit at a table in an office-like setting, discussing a film role and a missed date. The man mentions his search for a specific type of actress for a lead role while the woman reveals she has a small part in a picture.

“What's all this between you and Smith? I've got a part. It's only one line, but it's in the picture.” 48:55 · “It's ambition that made you break that date with me last night. Well, I had to be here so early this morning and... So did I.” 48:59 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 49:04 (passage 48:46–49:32); US record: No renewal found

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