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A Star Is Born · Beat 249 · permalink

Living room

1:24:37–1:25:11 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:421:24:42Frame at 1:24:591:24:59

Play from 1:24:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 150 · shots 587–588. 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
  • man seated on couch, wearing suit, mustache, middle-aged visible
  • man standing in background, dark clothing, partially obscured visible
  • Norman (named at t:85:01): man in light-colored coat, standing, facing right visible
  • man in white shirt, standing between p3 and p5 visible
  • Oliver (named at t:84:57): man in dark suit, back to camera, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a couch while another stands in the background. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“Mrs. Cuddles, Oliver, my social secretary.” 84:57 · “How are you feeling, Norman? Fine. Getting along remarkably well, Cuddles tells me.” 85:01
Seen
couch, lamp, armchair, coat, white shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: social interaction, introductions, informal gathering; style notes: medium shots, dim interior lighting, static framing

A man sits on a couch in a dimly lit room while three other men stand and converse nearby. One man is introduced as 'Mrs. Cuddles, Oliver, my social secretary,' and another is addressed as 'Norman' and asked about his well-being.

“Hello, Oliver.” 84:43 · “Welcome to Liberty Hall. Hello, Norman.” 84:45 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 1:24:42 (passage 1:24:37–1:25:11); US record: No renewal found

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