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A Star Is Born · Beat 293 · permalink

Private office

1:40:35–1:40:58 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:40:381:40:38Frame at 1:40:431:40:43Frame at 1:40:511:40:51

Play from 1:40:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 686–688. 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:3
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark dress, visible in frame:1 and frame:3 visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark shirt, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • Woman touches her hair with both hands. [frame:1]
  • Man smiles slightly while looking off-camera. [frame:2]
  • Man and woman stand face-to-face, very close. [frame:3]
Also said
“Do you want to call me when I come back?” 100:49 · “And I'll make some of those nice sandwiches.” 100:52
Seen
dark dress, dark shirt, ring on woman's finger
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: personal interaction, domestic routine; style notes: close-up framing, low-key lighting, two-shots and singles, minimal background detail

A woman and a man are shown in close-up shots, speaking to each other in a dimly lit interior. The woman touches her hair while the man smiles; they stand close, facing each other in the final frame.

“Nomi.” 100:36 · “It might spoil this beautiful, natural wave.” 100:38 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 1:40:38 (passage 1:40:35–1:40:58); US record: No renewal found

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