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A Star Is Born · Beat 156 · permalink

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54:40–55:04 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 54:5254:52

Play from 54:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 379–379. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-skinned, wearing a dark hat and dark coat with a light collar, young adult visible
  • man, light-skinned, dark hair, wearing a dark textured jacket or coat, adult visible
Seen
hat [frame:1], jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or startled; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting isolating faces against a dark background, dramatic expression

A man and a woman are shown in a close-up, both looking off-camera with expressions of surprise or alarm. The lighting is dim and focused on their faces, suggesting an interior setting.

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 54:52 (passage 54:40–55:04); US record: No renewal found

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