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A Star Is Born · Beat 188 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:04:57–1:05:30 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:581:04:58Frame at 1:05:151:05:15

Play from 1:04:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 113 · shots 459–460. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, light blouse, dark hair styled up, standing in doorway visible
  • Judd Baker (named at t:65:13): man, dark hair, wearing dark shirt, seated in driver's seat visible, audible
  • Norman Maine (named at t:65:09): man, light-colored shirt, seated in passenger seat, looking at driver visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a doorway while two men talk inside a vehicle. [frame:1]
  • Two men are seated in a car at night, engaged in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm Norman Maine.” 65:09 · “My name is Judd Baker.” 65:13
Seen
car interior, steering wheel, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: stranded, introduction, resource scarcity; style notes: close framing on characters, low-key lighting suggesting night, intimate two-shot inside vehicle

A woman in a light blouse stands in a doorway while two men talk inside a vehicle at night; one identifies himself as Norman Maine and the other as Judd Baker. The conversation reveals they are stranded, short of food, and discussing the situation.

“- Don't you like the country? - No.” 64:57 · “My wife can't shoot. Well, you're sure up against it. Sorry I can't do anything for you. Wait, listen. I'll be frank with you.” 65:03 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 1:04:58 (passage 1:04:57–1:05:30); US record: No renewal found

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