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A Star Is Born · Beat 205 · permalink

Private office

1:09:44–1:11:02 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; 2 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 1:10:231:10:23

Play from 1:09:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 496–496. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in gray suit, dark tie, medium build, dark hair, serious expression visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind, partial profile, wearing gloves visible, audible
Also said
“Well, as a matter of fact, as it happens, there's no part in this story for her.” 70:18 · “I'm going to go.” 70:41
Seen
gray suit [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], gloves [frame:1], desk or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: career negotiation, public perception, professional rivalry; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

Two men discuss a film contract and casting plans; one mentions a script for Esther and a separate project with Pemberton. One man decides to leave after the conversation.

“Let's call off the contract. No hard feelings.” 69:59 · “We're not quitting, either of us.” 70:02 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 1:10:23 (passage 1:09:44–1:11:02); US record: No renewal found

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