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A Star Is Born · Beat 175 · permalink

Courtroom

1:00:16–1:00:47 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:231:00:23Frame at 1:00:321:00:32Frame at 1:00:401:00:40

Play from 1:00:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 426–428. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, no hat, medium build visible
  • Forky Washington (named at t:60:30): man in light blue suit, fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, balding, seated at bench visible
  • man in uniform, standing near courtroom door visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands before a judge in a courtroom. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat speaks into a telephone receiver. [frame:3]
Also said
“Get me to Los Angeles Tribune. I have a good mind to put you under arrest. Where do I make the score?” 60:37 · “Give me the city desk.” 60:45
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], telephone receiver [frame:3], courtroom bench [frame:2], courtroom lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: legal drama, media and public image, personal conflict; style notes: medium shots in courtroom, close-up on phone call; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men converse outside a building, then the scene cuts to a courtroom where a man in a suit stands before a judge, and another man in a hat speaks into a phone. A transcript line references 'People versus Forky Washington' and a call to the Los Angeles Tribune.

“There go a couple of rats I raised for mice.” 60:18 · “People versus Forky Washington.” 60:30 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 1:00:23 (passage 1:00:16–1:00:47); US record: No renewal found

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