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A Star Is Born · Beat 246 · permalink

Living room

1:23:27–1:23:51 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:301:23:30Frame at 1:23:351:23:35Frame at 1:23:401:23:40Frame at 1:23:471:23:47

Play from 1:23:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 579–582. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde hair styled up, wearing a blue gown with ruffles and a large bow at the bust visible, audible
  • Arthur (named at t:83:30): man, dark hair, mustache, wearing a patterned suit with a tie and pocket square visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is standing while Arthur is standing near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • Arthur is shown in a close-up, looking serious. [frame:2]
  • The woman and Arthur are seated together on a sofa. [frame:3]
  • The woman is shown in a close-up, looking concerned. [frame:4]
Also said
“He's gone to a sanitarium.” 83:44 · “He really wants to stop drinking.” 83:47
Seen
blue gown [frame:1], patterned suit [frame:2], sofa [frame:3], curtained window [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: personal struggle, sacrifice, concern for others; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, soft studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A woman in a blue gown and a man in a suit are in a dimly lit room, discussing another man named Norman who has left the studio and entered a sanitarium to stop drinking. The conversation is serious and the setting appears to be a private interior space.

“Well, he's trying awfully hard, Arthur.” 83:30 · “Letting Norman leave this studio the hardest thing I ever did.” 83:34 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 1:23:30 (passage 1:23:27–1:23:51); US record: No renewal found

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