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A Star Is Born · Beat 290 · permalink

Living room

1:39:30–1:39:52 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; 2 names 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 1:39:381:39:38Frame at 1:39:491:39:49

Play from 1:39:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 677–678. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark shirt, visible in profile visible, audible
  • woman, red hair styled in waves, wearing a dark green top, visible with hands on face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman covers her face with her hands while seated next to the man. [frame:1]
  • The woman holds her face with both hands, looking distressed, while the man looks at her. [frame:2]
Also said
“Murder.” 99:47 · “Playing a scene with myself.” 99:50
Seen
dark green top [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1], furniture (couch or chair) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: emotional conflict, self-reflection, apology and regret; style notes: close framing, low-key lighting, dramatic shadows, intimate scale

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space; the woman appears distressed and covers her face while the man speaks to her. The dialogue includes an apology and a mention of 'murder' as part of a self-directed scene.

“Darling.” 99:31 · “It wasn't you.” 99:41 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 1:39:38 (passage 1:39:30–1:39:52); US record: No renewal found

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