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A Star Is Born · Beat 297 · permalink

Private office

1:41:16–1:41:25 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:41:181:41:18Frame at 1:41:201:41:20Frame at 1:41:231:41:23

Play from 1:41:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 180 · shots 692–694. 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
Time of day
sunset evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman, red hair, dark dress, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands near window with sunset view. [frame:1]
  • Woman enters through doorway, speaking. [frame:2]
  • Man turns toward woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“One more look.” 101:24
Seen
window with sunset view, doorway, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: farewell, unresolved tension; style notes: medium shots, dramatic lighting from window, high contrast between interior and sunset

A man in a dark suit stands near a window with a sunset view while a woman in a dark dress enters through a doorway. The woman speaks, asking to take one more look, and the man turns toward her.

“Hey!” 101:18 · “Mind if I take just a...” 101:22 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 1:41:18 (passage 1:41:16–1:41:25); US record: No renewal found

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