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A Star Is Born · Beat 171 · permalink

Private office

59:09–59:31 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 59:1759:17Frame at 59:2859:28

Play from 59:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 417–418. 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
  • balding man in dark suit, visible in profile visible
  • Mrs. Hinkle (named at t:59:11): man in dark suit and striped tie, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Mrs. Hinkle (named at t:59:11): woman with dark hair in updo, wearing feathered hat and dark coat visible, audible
Also said
“Now, if you'll please sign the license...” 59:17 · “Well, I believe this is the first time I've ever been in San Vardo.” 59:27
Seen
feathered hat [frame:2], dark suit [frame:1], striped tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: formal ceremony, identity, first encounters; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a feathered hat while another man looks on; they are indoors, and the dialogue suggests a formal occasion like a marriage license signing. The woman denies prior acquaintance with the man who questions her, and she states this is her first time in San Vardo.

“I hope you'll be very happy, Mrs. Hinkle. Thank you.” 59:11 · “Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.” 59:15 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 59:17 (passage 59:09–59:31); US record: No renewal found

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