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A Star Is Born · Beat 212 · permalink

Living room

1:13:30–1:14:01 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:351:13:35Frame at 1:13:481:13:48Frame at 1:13:581:13:58

Play from 1:13:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 126 · shots 510–512. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman wearing headscarf and apron, seated, light-colored dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man turns and walks away from the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man exits the room, leaving the woman seated. [frame:3]
Also said
“I think I'll marry you.” 73:48 · “You want to make an honest cook of me.” 73:52
Seen
lamp, lamp, lamp, apron, headscarf, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and slightly humorous; themes: domestic life, romantic banter, gender roles; style notes: medium shots, warm lamp lighting, static camera, domestic framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room; the woman, wearing a headscarf and apron, speaks about cooking and marriage while the man listens and then walks away. The dialogue suggests a domestic setting with servants absent, and the man exits the room as the woman remains seated.

“but it's the servants' night out. We haven't any. We have. We have.” 73:37 · “I fixed a little snack with my own lily white hand.” 73:40 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 1:13:35 (passage 1:13:30–1:14:01); US record: No renewal found

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