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A Star Is Born · Beat 277 · permalink

Private office

1:36:32–1:36:46 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:36:331:36:33Frame at 1:36:401:36:40

Play from 1:36:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 658–659. 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, partially visible, face in shadow, appears middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • A man's face is partially visible in darkness near a door. [frame:1]
  • The man's face remains partially visible in shadow. [frame:2]
Also said
“Take care.” 96:40 · “None very fond of pork.” 96:44
Seen
door [frame:1], shadow [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: isolation, duty, unspoken tension; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on face and door, high contrast between light and shadow

A man's face is partially visible in darkness near a door; the transcript includes fragmented lines about staying with someone and a remark about pork. No named characters or clear setting are established in this beat.

“I will never look.” 96:33 · “All I can do now is stay with him and try to help him.” 96:34 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 1:36:33 (passage 1:36:32–1:36:46); US record: No renewal found

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