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A Star Is Born · Beat 26 · permalink

Sidewalk

10:25–10:41 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:2610:26Frame at 10:2910:29Frame at 10:3510:35Frame at 10:3910:39

Play from 10:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 63–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark dress, carrying suitcase, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks on a sidewalk carrying a suitcase. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a sidewalk inscription reading 'LOVE TO YOU ALL SHIRLEY TEMPLE'. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands near movie posters on the sidewalk. [frame:4]
Seen
suitcase, movie posters, sidewalk inscription, movie posters on easels
On screen
LOVE TO YOU ALL SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: departure, fame, public vs private; style notes: Uses medium shots and close-ups; lighting contrasts bright outdoor scenes with dark interior shots; framing emphasizes isolation.

A woman in a dark dress carries a suitcase on a sidewalk near movie posters and a sidewalk inscription. The scene cuts to a close-up of the inscription and a dim interior shot of the same woman.

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 10:26 (passage 10:25–10:41); US record: No renewal found

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