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A Star Is Born · Beat 157 · permalink

Boxing ring

55:04–55:19 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:0655:06Frame at 55:0855:08Frame at 55:1355:13Frame at 55:1655:16

Play from 55:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 380–384. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing_ring (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless male boxer, muscular, wearing red shorts and gloves visible
  • older male referee, bald, wearing light shirt and dark pants visible
  • male boxer lying on ring floor, wearing dark shorts visible
  • woman with dark hair, smiling, wearing light-colored top visible
  • man in profile, dark hair, wearing dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A boxer in red shorts stands over a fallen opponent while a referee intervenes. [frame:1]
  • Two boxers lie on the ring floor as the referee stands over them. [frame:2]
  • The standing boxer in red shorts is held back by the referee. [frame:3]
  • A man and woman are shown in close-up, smiling at each other. [frame:4]
Seen
boxing ring, boxing gloves, referee shirt, red boxing shorts, dark boxing shorts
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense then relieved; themes: victory, spectacle, intimacy after conflict; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces and ring action, dramatic staging

A boxing match concludes with one fighter knocked down and the referee intervening; a man and woman are shown in close-up afterward. The transcript confirms a fighter was successfully hit.

“He got him! He got him! He certainly did.” 55:05 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 55:06 (passage 55:04–55:19); US record: No renewal found

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