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A Star Is Born · Beat 204 · permalink

Outdoor seating area

1:09:30–1:09:44 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 1:09:371:09:37

Play from 1:09:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 120 · shots 495–495. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor seating area (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light suit, seated, facing right visible, audible
  • Norman (named at t:69:30): man in dark suit and hat, seated, facing left visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table outdoors, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“And that makes photographs cheaper than wallpaper.” 69:34 · “But every 25 cents they pay for a theater ticket, buys them the right to be a critic.” 69:37
Seen
table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], trees and foliage in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly critical; themes: public perception, celebrity criticism, theater economics; style notes: medium two-shot, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

Two men sit outdoors at a table, one speaking to the other about fan mail and theater critics. The conversation references Norman's recent performances and public reception.

“Norman, Norman. Fans will write to anybody for a photograph.” 69:30 · “It only cost three cents for a stamp.” 69:33 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 1:09:37 (passage 1:09:30–1:09:44); US record: No renewal found

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