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A Star Is Born · Beat 224 · permalink

Private office

1:17:07–1:17:52 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:17:111:17:11Frame at 1:17:261:17:26Frame at 1:17:441:17:44

Play from 1:17:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 530–532. 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, frame:2
People
  • Artie (named at t:77:48): man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • Harlow (named at t:77:49): woman, mid-30s, seated, wearing a light-colored blouse with a bow tie and a shawl visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man walks into the room and approaches the seated woman. [frame:1]
  • The man stands beside a table covered with papers while speaking to the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man looks directly ahead with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“Benefit. Shrine Auditorium next Wednesday night.” 77:28 · “Oh, yes, Artie.” 77:48
Seen
suit [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], table with papers [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], chairs [frame:1, frame:2], wall clock [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: professional obligations, personal control, formal social events; style notes: medium shots, dim studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit speaks to a seated woman in a dimly lit room; he mentions a benefit at the Shrine Auditorium and an academy dinner. The woman is holding papers and the man stands near a table with documents.

“I'm going to go.” 77:12 · “They want you for a...” 77:26 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 1:17:11 (passage 1:17:07–1:17:52); US record: No renewal found

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