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A Star Is Born · Beat 177 · permalink

Desert

1:01:03–1:01:52 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:101:01:10Frame at 1:01:291:01:29Frame at 1:01:421:01:42Frame at 1:01:481:01:48

Play from 1:01:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 432–435. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, visible from inside a vehicle visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, standing in a kitchen visible
Seen happening
  • A vehicle is seen driving across a desert landscape. [frame:1]
  • A forested mountain area is shown with trees and rocks. [frame:2]
  • A man is visible inside a vehicle, looking out the window. [frame:3]
  • A woman is standing in a kitchen, stirring something in a pot. [frame:4]
Seen
vehicle, trees, kitchen utensils, pot
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: restless and yearning; themes: escape, duality of setting, personal desire; style notes: contrasting wide exterior shots with tight interior close-ups; dim lighting in interiors, natural light outdoors

A person is seen inside a vehicle and another in a kitchen; outdoor scenes show a desert and a forested mountain area. Spoken lines reference wanting a horse and making a 'wahoo' sound.

“Oh, give me a horse, a great big horse, a great big buckaroo.” 61:17 · “Let me wahoo, wahoo, wahoo!” 61:47 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 1:01:10 (passage 1:01:03–1:01:52); US record: No renewal found

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