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A Star Is Born · Beat 221 · permalink

Private office

1:16:48–1:16:59 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 1:16:511:16:51Frame at 1:16:571:16:57

Play from 1:16:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 525–526. 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
  • Ricky Lester (named at t:76:49): man in dark jacket, standing in doorway, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • her husband (named at t:76:55): man in light gray suit and tie, mid-30s, neat haircut, average build visible, audible
Also said
“I'm her husband.” 76:55 · “I'm right here, Mr. Lester.” 76:57
Seen
doorway [frame:1], suit [frame:2], tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and skeptical; themes: identity, skepticism, unexpected encounters; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a suit delivers a package to a doorway where another man answers; the delivery person identifies himself as the recipient's husband. The recipient, Ricky Lester, responds with skepticism before confirming his presence.

“Does Ricky Lester live here?” 76:49 · “I got a package for him.” 76:50 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 1:16:51 (passage 1:16:48–1:16:59); US record: No renewal found

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