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A Star Is Born · Beat 170 · permalink

Private office

58:59–59:09 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 59:0159:01Frame at 59:0759:07

Play from 58:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 415–416. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, side profile, dark hair visible
  • balding man with mustache, wearing dark suit and tie visible
  • person in dark coat with fur collar, back to camera visible
Seen
{'item': 'dark suit', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'mustache', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'fur-collared coat', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wood-paneled wall', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, formal confrontation; style notes: medium close-up, low-key lighting, formal attire suggests authority

A man in a suit speaks in a dimly lit interior while another man with a mustache stands nearby. The transcript indicates a command for silence and a statement about exercising an official prerogative.

“Quiet!” 59:00 · “And now I must exercise my prerogative of office.” 59:05 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 59:01 (passage 58:59–59:09); US record: No renewal found

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