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A Star Is Born · Beat 225 · permalink

Living room

1:17:52–1:18:15 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 1:17:561:17:56Frame at 1:18:081:18:08

Play from 1:17:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 134 · shots 533–534. 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:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark bow at the neck visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands close to the woman as she speaks. [frame:2]
Also said
“We're forgetting the wonderful stuff.” 78:04 · “I'll punch it in a little drink.” 78:11
Seen
blouse with dark bow [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: personal conflict, emotional evasion, social ritual (drinking); style notes: medium close-up shots, soft studio lighting, focused on facial expressions and proximity between characters

A woman in a light-colored blouse with a dark bow sits and speaks while a man in a suit stands close to her. The dialogue suggests they are discussing something they wish to avoid and a decision to have a drink.

“I told him I'd try.” 77:54 · “Don't talk about those.” 78:01 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 1:17:56 (passage 1:17:52–1:18:15); US record: No renewal found

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