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A Star Is Born · Beat 200 · permalink

Garden

1:08:03–1:08:23 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:08:051:08:05Frame at 1:08:091:08:09Frame at 1:08:171:08:17Frame at 1:08:211:08:21

Play from 1:08:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 484–488. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Otto (named at t:68:13): man, dark suit, black hat, mustache, holding camera visible, audible
  • Oliver (named at t:68:09): man, light gray suit, no hat, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • Miss Lester (named at t:68:18): woman, light dress, seated, holding hat visible
Seen happening
  • Otto holds a camera and speaks. [frame:1]
  • Oliver and Otto stand together outdoors. [frame:2]
  • Otto holds the camera again, looking toward someone. [frame:3]
  • Miss Lester sits near lounge chairs while Oliver and Otto stand nearby. [frame:4]
Also said
“They ain't your only days that are over.” 68:17 · “Oh, hold that, Miss Lester.” 68:18
Seen
camera, lounge chairs, hat, microphone on stand
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: media, celebrity, conflict; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, static camera, period costumes

Two men in suits speak outdoors near a woman seated by lounge chairs; one holds a camera. A man named Oliver is addressed, and another named Otto is told his 'camera-smashing days are over.'

“Well, come on, Oliver. Let you and me get exclusive. See you later, Vicki.” 68:09 · “Don't worry, Otto. My camera-smashing days are over.” 68:13 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 1:08:05 (passage 1:08:03–1:08:23); US record: No renewal found

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