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A Star Is Born · Beat 274 · permalink

Courtroom

1:35:16–1:35:42 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:35:191:35:19Frame at 1:35:321:35:32

Play from 1:35:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 162 · shots 652–653. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, t:95:37
People
  • man, middle-aged, thinning hair, wearing dark suit and tie, seated at desk visible
  • Jose Rodriguez (named at t:95:30): man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing light-colored suit, standing visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark coat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk, looking down at papers. [frame:1]
  • A man stands beside a woman, placing his hand on her shoulder. [frame:2]
Also said
“Your Honor.” 95:41 · “Sixty days.” 95:42
Seen
desk, chair, suit, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, formal; themes: justice, legal proceeding, consequence; style notes: medium shots, dim lighting, static framing, formal attire

A man in a suit sits at a desk while another man stands beside a woman in a dimly lit room. A transcript mentions a jail entrance, a plea of guilt, and a sentence of sixty days.

“How do you plead?” 95:37 · “I think I'm guilty.” 95:39 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 1:35:19 (passage 1:35:16–1:35:42); US record: No renewal found

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