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A Star Is Born · Beat 270 · permalink

Theatre

1:34:37–1:34:40 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:391:34:39

Play from 1:34:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 160 · shots 646–646. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing near stage visible
  • man in light shirt, standing with back to camera visible
  • person seated, head down, possibly writing visible
Seen
rows of empty seats [frame:1], stage or podium [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, anticipatory; themes: isolation, performance space; style notes: low-key lighting, wide shot showing scale of space, figures silhouetted against background

A dimly lit interior with rows of empty seats and a few people standing near a stage or podium. No dialogue or on-screen text is visible in the frame.

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 1:34:39 (passage 1:34:37–1:34:40); US record: No renewal found

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