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A Star Is Born · Beat 194 · permalink

Poolside

1:06:59–1:07:16 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:011:07:01Frame at 1:07:051:07:05Frame at 1:07:101:07:10Frame at 1:07:141:07:14

Play from 1:06:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 469–472. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
poolside (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Norman (named at t:67:00): woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored suit with a dark necktie and hat visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored suit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman stands by a pool looking up. [frame:1]
  • Man embraces woman by the pool. [frame:2]
  • Man and woman walk away through dark foliage. [frame:3]
  • Man and woman embrace again by the pool. [frame:4]
Also said
“The whole world's lovely.” 67:05 · “Hey, hold it!” 67:10
Seen
swimming pool [frame:1], suit (woman) [frame:1], suit (man) [frame:2], foliage [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic, interrupted; themes: romance, interruption, leisure setting; style notes: medium shots, bright outdoor lighting, staged intimacy

A woman in a light-colored suit stands by a pool, then embraces a man in a suit; they are later seen walking away through foliage. The transcript includes affectionate dialogue and a sudden interruption.

“Oh, Norman, it's lovely.” 67:00 · “So are you, lovely.” 67:03 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 1:07:01 (passage 1:06:59–1:07:16); US record: No renewal found

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