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A Star Is Born · Beat 186 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:04:09–1:04:23 Registered 1937

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

Frame at 1:04:131:04:13Frame at 1:04:181:04:18Frame at 1:04:211:04:21

Play from 1:04:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 451–453. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • seen from behind, wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants, holding a microphone visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds a microphone in darkness. [frame:1]
  • A person walks through a doorway into a dim room. [frame:2]
  • An exterior shot of a mountainous landscape with trees is shown. [frame:3]
Seen
microphone, doorway, mountains, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: isolation, transition; style notes: low-key lighting, rear-view framing, abrupt cut to landscape

A person is seen from behind holding a microphone in darkness, then walking through a doorway into a dim room, followed by an exterior shot of a mountainous landscape with trees. No names or dialogue are provided in the transcript for this beat.

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 1:04:13 (passage 1:04:09–1:04:23); US record: No renewal found

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