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A Star Is Born · Beat 17 · permalink

Private office

9:00–9:20 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:109:10

Play from 9:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 49–49. 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
  • silhouetted figure, possibly male, wearing a hat visible
  • Lily (named at t:9:00): silhouetted figure, possibly female, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two figures are silhouetted in a dim interior, one holding a small light. [frame:1]
Seen
small light source (possibly lantern or candle), hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, intimate; themes: farewell, reluctant departure; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouettes, tight framing on figures

Two silhouetted figures are seen in a dimly lit interior, one holding a small light source. One figure speaks farewell to 'Lily' and agrees to leave despite not wanting to.

“Bye, Lily! Bye.” 9:00 · “Do you want to go home now? I don't want to. But I will.” 9:08 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 9:10 (passage 9:00–9:20); US record: No renewal found

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