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A Star Is Born · Beat 196 · permalink

Poolside

1:07:33–1:07:52 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:371:07:37Frame at 1:07:461:07:46Frame at 1:07:511:07:51

Play from 1:07:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 477–479. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated visible
  • woman in light-colored uniform with hat, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near pool visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, walking visible
Also said
“Okay, I don't fire.” 67:43 · “Ah, the producer.” 67:49
Seen
{'item': 'swimming pool', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'lounge chair', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'uniform with hat', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'potted plant', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: role reversal, film production, hierarchical dynamics; style notes: medium shots, outdoor lighting, staged composition

A man in a suit sits while a woman in a uniform stands beside him near a pool; another man in uniform walks nearby. A producer is mentioned in the dialogue.

“Now let's go after something different. You sit down and she'll stand up.” 67:33 · “Pretty radical, isn't it? Yeah, but in a nice way.” 67:38 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 1:07:37 (passage 1:07:33–1:07:52); US record: No renewal found

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