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A Star Is Born · Beat 183 · permalink

Private office

1:03:38–1:03:45 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:401:03:40Frame at 1:03:441:03:44

Play from 1:03:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 111 · shots 445–446. 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
  • shirtless man, seen from side, looking upward visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light-colored collared shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man looks upward at a light in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a light-colored shirt is visible, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“Pull that gadget at the top and pray for rain.” 63:42
Seen
light fixture [frame:1], collared shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, instructional; themes: mechanical failure, instruction under pressure; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, high contrast between light and shadow

A man looks upward at a light in a dark room while a woman in a light-colored shirt speaks. The transcript includes dialogue about operating a device and praying for rain.

“What?” 63:39 · “What do I do to make this thing work?” 63:40 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 1:03:40 (passage 1:03:38–1:03:45); US record: No renewal found

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