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A Star Is Born · Beat 271 · permalink

Private office

1:34:40–1:34:47 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:421:34:42Frame at 1:34:461:34:46

Play from 1:34:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 647–648. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Lester (named at t:94:45): older man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie, seated visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark jacket, standing visible, audible
  • older man, white hair, wearing dark suit, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Lester gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
desk [frame:2], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, identity, marital claim; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A woman identifies herself as the wife of a man addressed as Mr. Lester, who is seated and speaking. The scene takes place indoors with three people visible across two shots.

“I'm his wife.” 94:44 · “Yes, I recognize you, Mr. Lester.” 94:45 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 1:34:42 (passage 1:34:40–1:34:47); US record: No renewal found

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