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A Star Is Born · Beat 213 · permalink

Living room

1:14:01–1:14:33 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:021:14:02Frame at 1:14:131:14:13Frame at 1:14:281:14:28

Play from 1:14:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 513–515. 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:3
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark bow and a blue dress visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • Woman adjusts her hair while looking in a mirror. [frame:1]
  • Woman continues adjusting her hair in the mirror. [frame:2]
  • Man leans over a table while woman stands beside him. [frame:3]
Also said
“Wonderful.” 74:21 · “Now then, be formal. Just pitch in.” 74:27
Seen
mirror, lamp, table, chair, clocks on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, conversational; themes: personal interaction, preparation, domestic setting; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, soft studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A woman adjusts her hair in a mirror while a man stands nearby; later, the man leans over a table as the woman stands beside him in a room with furniture and a lamp. Dialogue includes apologies and comments on appearance.

“I'm sorry.” 74:15 · “How's it look?” 74:20 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 1:14:02 (passage 1:14:01–1:14:33); US record: No renewal found

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