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A Star Is Born · Beat 230 · permalink

Restaurant

1:18:35–1:19:33 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 1:18:371:18:37Frame at 1:18:461:18:46Frame at 1:19:151:19:15Frame at 1:19:321:19:32

Play from 1:18:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 539–547. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing tuxedo visible, audible
  • Vicky Lester (named at t:79:23): woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress with V-neck visible
Seen happening
  • A man speaks at a dinner table while a woman listens. [frame:1]
Also said
“We offer to her the Academy Award for the finest performance of the past year.” 79:09 · “to present this award to the actress who created the unforgettable Anna.” 79:23
Seen
tuxedo, dark dress, dinner table with flowers and glassware
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, ceremonial; themes: awards ceremony, recognition in film industry, public honor; style notes: medium close-ups, dim ambient lighting with spot highlights, formal attire, staged for a seated audience

A man in a tuxedo speaks at a formal dinner while a woman in a dark dress listens; the transcript announces an Academy Award being presented to Vicky Lester for her role in 'Dream Without End'. The event is an awards ceremony honoring contributions to the motion picture industry.

“the annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.” 78:47 · “We now pay honor to the ladies.” 79:05 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 1:18:37 (passage 1:18:35–1:19:33); US record: No renewal found

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