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A Star Is Born · Beat 218 · permalink

Theatre

1:16:07–1:16:17 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:121:16:12

Play from 1:16:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 522–522. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a suit with a bow tie, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman in a light-colored dress, medium build, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman are embracing on a stage with curtains. [frame:1]
Also said
“in love with.” 76:13 · “I hope so.” 76:14
Seen
curtains [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic, intimate; themes: romance, performance, intimacy; style notes: medium close-up, soft lighting, theatrical framing with curtains and lamps

A man and a woman are shown in a close embrace on a dimly lit stage or set with curtains; the transcript suggests a romantic context involving a 'guy on your list' and someone being 'in love with' him. No names are spoken in the supplied lines, and no time of day or period is established.

“Don't look now, but” 76:08 · “guy on your list.” 76:12 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 1:16:12 (passage 1:16:07–1:16:17); US record: No renewal found

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