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A Star Is Born · Beat 275 · permalink

Sidewalk

1:35:42–1:36:02 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:35:521:35:52

Play from 1:35:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 163 · shots 654–654. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark coat, seen in profile, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“I'm so tired. Hold it, Mr. May.” 95:59
Seen
stone structure, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: weary; themes: fatigue, interruption; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, medium shot framing

A person in a dark coat stands beside a stone structure at night, speaking about being tired. The transcript includes a brief exchange about sixty days and a request to hold on.

“Sixty days.” 95:42 · “Yeah.” 95:58 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 1:35:52 (passage 1:35:42–1:36:02); US record: No renewal found

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