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A Star Is Born · Beat 254 · permalink

Bar

1:28:13–1:28:25 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 1:28:171:28:17Frame at 1:28:231:28:23

Play from 1:28:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 153 · shots 599–600. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding a glass, seated visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing light-colored coat and hat, seated visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated, holding a pen visible
  • man in uniform standing near stairs visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible near doorway visible
  • man bending over table in background visible
Also said
“Hi, Ryan.” 88:21 · “Hello, Army.” 88:24
Seen
glass [frame:2], pen [frame:2], tables and chairs [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], hats (worn by people) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and social; themes: social interaction, casual gathering; style notes: medium close-up framing, dim ambient lighting with focused illumination on subjects, typical of 1930s studio interior scenes

Three people are seated at a table in a dimly lit interior space; two men and one woman are visible, with one man holding a glass. Other figures are present in the background, including one ascending stairs.

“Albert?” 88:18 · “Sam?” 88:20 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 1:28:17 (passage 1:28:13–1:28:25); US record: No renewal found

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