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A Star Is Born · Beat 267 · permalink

Police station

1:33:24–1:33:46 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:33:261:33:26Frame at 1:33:311:33:31Frame at 1:33:401:33:40

Play from 1:33:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 159 · shots 632–634. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Rails (named at t:93:33): young man, bandaged head, wearing dark jacket and tie, seated visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seated, facing p1, appears to be authority figure visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind desk, balding, authoritative posture visible
  • man in dark suit, seated next to p1, face obscured visible
  • man in dark suit, seated, head down, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • Rails and other men are seated in a row, one with a bandaged head. [frame:1]
  • An authority figure stands behind a desk, addressing Rails. [frame:2]
  • Rails stands, looking forward, with another man seated behind him. [frame:3]
Also said
“How old are you, Rails?” 93:33 · “17, sir.” 93:35
Seen
bandage, desk, green lamp, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, interrogative; themes: youth in trouble, institutional processing, self-reflection under scrutiny; style notes: medium shots, dim lighting with key light on subjects, formal framing suggesting institutional authority

A young man named Rails, aged 17, is questioned in what appears to be a police station after being picked up drunk and treated at a hospital. He is seated with other men, one of whom has a bandaged head, and is asked if he looked at his cellmates and himself.

“A plain drunk.” 93:27 · “Picked up on Brooklyn Avenue, given treatment at receiving hospital, then removed to jail.” 93:28 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 1:33:26 (passage 1:33:24–1:33:46); US record: No renewal found

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