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A Star Is Born · Beat 301 · permalink

Private office

1:42:18–1:42:49 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:42:341:42:34

Play from 1:42:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 184 · shots 698–698. 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
  • man wearing a dark suit and a bowler hat, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a light-colored suit, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Two men face each other across a table with food and drinks. [frame:1]
Also said
“How do you wire congratulations” 102:42 · “to the Pacific Oceans.” 102:45
Seen
table [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], window with grid pattern [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dryly comedic; themes: absurdity, social ritual, miscommunication; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static composition

Two men are in a room with a table set for a meal; one is seated and the other stands. A line mentions wiring congratulations to the Pacific Oceans, suggesting a humorous or absurd context.

“The first drink of water he had in 20 years.” 102:31 · “Then he had to get it by accident.” 102:35 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 1:42:34 (passage 1:42:18–1:42:49); US record: No renewal found

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