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A Star Is Born · Beat 207 · permalink

Private office

1:12:18–1:12:34 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:12:241:12:24Frame at 1:12:331:12:33

Play from 1:12:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 123 · shots 498–499. 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
  • Norman (named at t:72:18): man wearing glasses and a dark suit, seated at a desk with a green lamp visible, audible
  • Artie (named at t:72:27): man in a light suit and tie, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible, audible
Also said
“Is that on the level? Oh, please, Artie. I'm not news anymore. Forget it.” 72:30
Seen
telephone [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], telephone receiver [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: communication, professional relationships, media and fame; style notes: two-shot sequence with medium close-ups, studio lighting focused on faces, dark background to emphasize dialogue

Two men are shown in separate shots talking on telephones in what appears to be an office setting. One man is identified by name as Norman during the conversation, and the other is addressed as Artie.

“Oh, is that you, Norman?” 72:18 · “Say I hear you through with Oliver Niles.” 72:27 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 1:12:24 (passage 1:12:18–1:12:34); US record: No renewal found

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