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A Star Is Born · Beat 273 · permalink

Courtroom

1:35:01–1:35:16 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 1:35:031:35:03Frame at 1:35:111:35:11

Play from 1:35:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 162 · shots 650–651. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(courtroom, interior) evidence: t:95:02
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, seated, hands clasped visible
  • man, middle-aged, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, standing visible
  • woman, middle-aged, dark jacket, dark hat, standing, looking down visible
Also said
“the responsibility you'll be assuming to this court and to the Commonwealth.” 95:11 · “I do.” 95:16
Seen
dark wooden chair, microphone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: legal responsibility, public safety, personal accountability; style notes: medium close-up shots, dim studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man in a suit sits with hands clasped while a transcript line questions his behavior when drunk. A second frame shows a man and a woman standing, with the transcript indicating a legal responsibility being acknowledged.

“You realize that this man when drunk is obviously a menace to public safety?” 95:02 · “And you realize to miss Lester.” 95:09 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 1:35:03 (passage 1:35:01–1:35:16); US record: No renewal found

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