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A Star Is Born · Beat 260 · permalink

Bar

1:30:19–1:30:38 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 1:30:211:30:21Frame at 1:30:271:30:27Frame at 1:30:341:30:34

Play from 1:30:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 154 · shots 612–614. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, appears middle-aged, seated, covering face with hand visible
  • Norman Mayne (named at t:90:29): man in suit and tie, visible in profile, speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat is shown in a close-up, looking distressed. [frame:1]
  • The man in the hat covers his face with his hand while seated at a table. [frame:2]
  • A blurry shot shows a dark interior with indistinct figures and furniture. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm Norman Mayne.” 90:29 · “Don't! - Get up! - Get up! - Get up! - Come on, you'll be just a little. - We're drunk again! - Yeah, yeah, come on, Frank. - Wait a minute, wait a minute. - Come on, I'll try for you. - Oh, it's not my fault. - Don't bother to cross the mouth. - Come on, you'll be just a little. - Come on, you'll be just a little.” 90:29
Seen
fedora hat [frame:2], suit [frame:1, frame:2], table [frame:2], glass [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: alcoholism, dependency, personal conflict; style notes: close-up framing, dim lighting, high contrast shadows, intimate scale

A man in a suit and hat is shown in a dimly lit interior, appearing distressed while another man speaks to him. The dialogue suggests a confrontation about dependency and drinking, with one man identifying himself as Norman Mayne.

“I don't feel sorry, Fee.” 90:19 · “You can live off your wife now. She'll buy you drinks and put up with you even though nobody else will.” 90:23 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 1:30:21 (passage 1:30:19–1:30:38); US record: No renewal found

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