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A Star Is Born · Beat 291 · permalink

Living room

1:39:52–1:40:11 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 1:39:551:39:55Frame at 1:40:031:40:03Frame at 1:40:091:40:09

Play from 1:39:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 176 · shots 679–681. 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:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark robe, standing visible, audible
  • woman, red hair, wearing a dark dress, seated visible, audible
Also said
“Isn't it?” 100:00 · “I guess I have been drinking too much.” 100:08
Seen
robe, armchair, dark dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: alcoholism, mutual support, emotional vulnerability; style notes: close-up and medium shots, low-key lighting, intimate framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space, discussing his drinking and her jitters. The man, wearing a robe, stands while the woman sits; they agree he will go on the wagon.

“I'm just coming out of the jitters and you're just going into them.” 99:54 · “Oh.” 100:00 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 1:39:55 (passage 1:39:52–1:40:11); US record: No renewal found

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