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A Star Is Born · Beat 203 · permalink

Poolside

1:09:01–1:09:30 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:081:09:08Frame at 1:09:221:09:22

Play from 1:09:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 120 · shots 493–494. 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:69:01): man in light gray suit, dark tie, short dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back and side, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table outdoors near a pool. [frame:1]
Also said
“You think I'm slipping?” 69:16 · “You've slipped.” 69:23
Seen
wicker table [frame:1], wicker chairs [frame:1], pool [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1], cigarette smoke [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: career decline, self-doubt, professional evaluation; style notes: medium close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting, shallow depth of field focusing on characters

Two men sit at a table outdoors near a pool, discussing business and one's career performance. One man questions if he is slipping, while the other responds that he has slipped.

“Let's talk about business at the office, Norman.” 69:01 · “Beautiful pool you have here. Beautiful. Oh, now, let's talk about it here. Here.” 69:04 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 1:09:08 (passage 1:09:01–1:09:30); US record: No renewal found

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