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A Star Is Born · Beat 217 · permalink

Bedroom

1:15:33–1:16:07 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 1:15:381:15:38Frame at 1:15:551:15:55

Play from 1:15:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 520–521. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing a light-colored dress with a bow at the neck, standing or seated with back to camera visible, audible
Also said
“Why don't you have a zipper?” 75:51 · “Yeah.” 75:57
Seen
suit, light-colored dress with bow, bed
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, slightly tense; themes: domestic assistance, clothing as constraint, emotional release; style notes: medium close-up shots, soft studio lighting, focused on character interaction

A man in a suit helps a woman in a light-colored dress with her back; she reacts with relief or emotion. The dialogue includes requests for help with her dress and remarks about breakfast and zippers.

“Mama, will you unhook my dress? I can't breathe.” 75:41 · “I made you breakfast.” 75:48 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 1:15:38 (passage 1:15:33–1:16:07); US record: No renewal found

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