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A Star Is Born · Beat 145 · permalink

Theatre

50:25–50:35 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 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 50:3050:30

Play from 50:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 348–348. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated, holding hat visible
  • woman in green coat, seated next to p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated behind p1, smiling visible
  • man in suit, seated behind p2, partially visible visible
  • unspecified speaker audible
Seen
theater seats [frame:1], hat held by p1 [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, anticipatory; themes: cinema-going, audience reaction; style notes: medium shot, dim ambient lighting focused on audience, studio lighting on faces

A man and a woman sit together in a theater audience, watching a film. A voice speaks about hearing something at the end of the picture.

“Wait till you hear them at the end of the picture.” 50:32 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 50:30 (passage 50:25–50:35); US record: No renewal found

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