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A Star Is Born · Beat 269 · permalink

Courtroom

1:34:13–1:34:37 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:151:34:15Frame at 1:34:231:34:23Frame at 1:34:311:34:31Frame at 1:34:361:34:36

Play from 1:34:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 159 · shots 639–645. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark suit, older, balding visible
  • older man standing behind, wearing dark suit and light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands in a courtroom, looking downcast. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit stands beside an older man, both facing forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Ninety days, we're set in jail.” 94:32 · “Please wait.” 94:34
Seen
desk [frame:3], microphone [frame:3], papers [frame:3], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: accountability, consequences of behavior, legal judgment; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots in a dimly lit interior; formal framing suggests institutional authority

A man in a suit is addressed in a formal setting, where he is accused of being a drunk and sentenced to ninety days in jail. The scene includes at least two other men, one seated at a desk and another standing behind.

“You've come pretty low, haven't you?” 94:17 · “You're nothing but a near-responsible drunk driving about the streets with the power to inflict death or injury on innocent people.” 94:22 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 1:34:15 (passage 1:34:13–1:34:37); US record: No renewal found

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