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A Star Is Born · Beat 232 · permalink

Theatre

1:19:43–1:19:58 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:501:19:50

Play from 1:19:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 549–549. 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
  • man in tuxedo, holding microphone and award visible
  • Miss Lester (named at t:79:52): woman in black dress, seated visible
  • orchestra members in dark suits, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo holds a microphone and an award on stage while a woman in a black dress sits beside him. [frame:1]
Seen
microphone [frame:1], award statuette [frame:1], orchestra instruments [frame:1], flowers on stage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, ceremonial; themes: awards ceremony, public recognition, performance; style notes: medium shot, stage lighting, formal attire, centered composition

A man in a tuxedo holds a microphone and an award on a stage while a woman in a black dress sits beside him; an orchestra is visible behind them. The transcript includes a question addressed to 'Miss Lester' and a statement that 'this says it all for us.'

“What more can we say, Miss Lester?” 79:52 · “This says it all for us.” 79:54 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 1:19:50 (passage 1:19:43–1:19:58); US record: No renewal found

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