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A Star Is Born · Beat 245 · permalink

Private office

1:23:21–1:23:27 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:23:221:23:22Frame at 1:23:251:23:25

Play from 1:23:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 577–578. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, mustache, wearing a gray suit with a white pocket square and dark tie visible, audible
  • woman, blonde, curly hair with pink flowers, wearing a blue dress with lace collar visible
Seen
gray suit [frame:1], blue dress with lace collar [frame:2], pink flowers in hair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly concerned; themes: personal inquiry, interpersonal concern; style notes: close-up shots, studio lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or romantic scene

A man in a suit asks a woman in a blue dress about someone named Norman. The woman is visible in a close-up, listening or responding.

“How's Norman?” 83:22 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 1:23:22 (passage 1:23:21–1:23:27); US record: No renewal found

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