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A Star Is Born · Beat 198 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:07:55–1:08:00 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:571:07:57Frame at 1:07:591:07:59

Play from 1:07:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 481–482. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Vicky (named at t:67:57): woman, light-colored dress, white gloves, dark hat, smiling visible
  • Oliver (named at t:67:58): man, light suit, dark tie, smiling, shaking hands visible
  • man, dark suit, facing p2, shaking hands visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit shakes hands with another man in a dark suit while a woman stands beside them. [frame:1]
  • The woman smiles broadly while looking toward the men. [frame:2]
Seen
umbrella, gloves, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and cordial; themes: social greeting, formal attire, interpersonal recognition; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, period costume, outdoor framing

A man in a suit shakes hands with another man while a woman in a light dress and gloves stands beside them. The woman smiles as the men greet each other by name.

“Vicky, how well you're looking.” 67:57 · “Hello, Oliver.” 67:58 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 1:07:57 (passage 1:07:55–1:08:00); US record: No renewal found

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