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A Star Is Born · Beat 25 · permalink

Sidewalk

10:07–10:25 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:0910:09Frame at 10:1310:13Frame at 10:2010:20Frame at 10:2310:23

Play from 10:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 58–62. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with red hair, wearing a dark hat and coat with a patterned scarf visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks on a sidewalk carrying a suitcase. [frame:2]
  • Handprints and footprints are visible in cement with inscriptions. [frame:1]
  • More handprints and footprints with inscriptions are visible in cement. [frame:3]
  • A woman with red hair and a dark hat looks down with a slight smile. [frame:4]
Seen
suitcase [frame:2], handprints and footprints in cement [frame:1, frame:3], dark hat and coat [frame:4], patterned scarf [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic; themes: legacy, personal journey, celebrity; style notes: close-ups on personal artifacts and a character's expression; soft lighting on the woman's face

A woman walks on a sidewalk carrying a suitcase, and close-ups show handprints and footprints in cement with inscriptions. A woman with red hair and a dark hat is shown in a close-up, looking down with a slight smile.

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 10:09 (passage 10:07–10:25); US record: No renewal found

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