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A Star Is Born · Beat 279 · permalink

Private office

1:37:08–1:37:30 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; 2 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 1:37:141:37:14Frame at 1:37:251:37:25

Play from 1:37:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 165 · shots 662–663. 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
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark patterned dress visible, audible
  • man, face partially visible in shadow, eyes and forehead lit visible
Also said
“It's your life you're giving up to.” 97:22 · “Oh, I can try to give me a minute.” 97:25
Seen
dark patterned dress [frame:1], dark interior with indistinct background [frame:1], man's face in shadow [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and tense; themes: regret, relationship crisis, personal sacrifice; style notes: low-key lighting, tight close-ups, high contrast between light and shadow

A woman speaks in a dimly lit interior, expressing regret and a desire to start over with someone. A man's face is partially visible in shadow in a separate shot.

“Maybe if I hadn't been away from him so much,” 97:08 · “It may not be too late to go away with him and start over.” 97:18 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 1:37:14 (passage 1:37:08–1:37:30); US record: No renewal found

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