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A Star Is Born · Beat 272 · permalink

Private office

1:34:47–1:35:01 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; 2 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 1:34:541:34:54

Play from 1:34:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 162 · shots 649–649. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, tie, dark hair, medium build, looking down visible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, light-colored jacket, light blouse, fair complexion visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks to a man who looks down. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll be responsible for him.” 94:56 · “He just...” 94:59
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], light-colored jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, apologetic; themes: responsibility, interruption, personal accountability; style notes: medium close-up, low-key lighting, dramatic shadows, studio set

A man and a woman stand close together in a dimly lit interior; the woman speaks while the man looks down. The transcript includes a promise of responsibility and an interrupted statement.

“Hey, George.” 94:51 · “I promise you, this won't happen again.” 94:53 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 1:34:54 (passage 1:34:47–1:35:01); US record: No renewal found

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