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A Star Is Born · Beat 240 · permalink

Theatre

1:22:10–1:22:21 Registered 1937

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

Frame at 1:22:111:22:11Frame at 1:22:171:22:17

Play from 1:22:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 569–570. 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 in dark dress, holding Oscar statuette, seated visible
  • woman in blue dress, standing, leaning forward visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in blue leans toward a seated woman holding an Oscar statuette. [frame:1]
  • The seated woman looks down at the Oscar statuette. [frame:2]
Also said
“You must be terribly proud and happy tonight.” 82:13
Seen
Oscar statuette, formal evening wear, table with glassware
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, celebratory; themes: recognition, ceremony, social interaction; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, shallow depth of field focusing on foreground figures

Two women and a man are in a crowded formal setting; one woman holds an Oscar statuette and is being congratulated. The scene is lit for a formal event, with guests in evening wear visible in the background.

“My dear.” 82:10 · “Do let me congratulate you.” 82:11 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 1:22:11 (passage 1:22:10–1:22:21); US record: No renewal found

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