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A Star Is Born · Beat 229 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:33–1:18:35 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 1:18:341:18:34

Play from 1:18:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 538–538. 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
  • woman with dark hair in a formal dark dress, seated at a table visible
  • man in a tuxedo, seated at a table facing the woman visible
  • man in tuxedo standing on a stage, possibly an orchestra conductor or host visible
  • multiple formally dressed guests seated at tables in the background visible
Seen
{'item': 'formal dinner table with glassware and floral centerpiece', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'orchestra pit with musicians', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'stage with podium or lectern', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, ceremonial; themes: formal gathering, social event, performance setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, wide composition showing depth of hall

A man and a woman sit at a table in a crowded hall with other formally dressed guests. The setting appears to be a formal dinner or awards ceremony with a stage and orchestra visible in the background.

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 1:18:34 (passage 1:18:33–1:18:35); US record: No renewal found

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