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A Star Is Born · Beat 266 · permalink

Courtroom

1:32:48–1:33:24 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:32:501:32:50Frame at 1:32:581:32:58Frame at 1:33:041:33:04Frame at 1:33:191:33:19

Play from 1:32:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 159 · shots 626–631. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark jacket and necklace, seated visible
  • man with mustache, wearing suit and tie, seated next to p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at desk, writing visible
  • older man with white hair, standing in background visible
  • William Gregory (named at t:92:50): man with mustache, wearing dark suit, seated at desk with papers visible, audible
  • Milton Rails (named at t:93:22): man with white hair, wearing dark suit, seated at desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man sit together in a courtroom. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit writes at a desk while another man stands behind him. [frame:2]
  • A man at a desk speaks to another man seated across from him. [frame:3]
  • The same man continues to speak across the desk. [frame:4]
Also said
“We'll be out in time for Washington's birthday in 60 days.” 93:16 · “Milton Rails.” 93:22
Seen
desk [frame:2], typewriter [frame:2], green lamp [frame:3], papers [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: justice, recidivism, legal procedure; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, formal courtroom setting

A man is being processed in a courtroom for public intoxication, with a judge and clerk present; a woman and another man are seated nearby. The transcript indicates the man is named William Gregory and is being sentenced to 60 days, with a reference to Milton Rails.

“William Gregory. Yes, yes.” 92:50 · “Plain drunk. Picked up at Sifflin Town.” 92:55 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 1:32:50 (passage 1:32:48–1:33:24); US record: No renewal found

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