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1:43:10–1:43:30 Registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 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 1:43:131:43:13Frame at 1:43:201:43:20Frame at 1:43:231:43:23Frame at 1:43:281:43:28

Play from 1:43:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 190 · shots 704–710. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Vicki (named at t:103:17): woman with dark hair, wearing a dark hat and coat, visibly distressed visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing behind Vicki, partially visible visible
  • Norman May (named at t:103:17): man in dark suit and tie, holding a book, speaking to Vicki visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and tie, gesturing with hands, managing crowd visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing beside p4, managing crowd visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd surrounds a woman in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • A woman named Vicki looks distressed while a man stands behind her. [frame:2]
  • Two men in suits appear to be managing the crowd around Vicki. [frame:4]
Seen
hat [frame:2], book [frame:4], suits [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and overwhelming; themes: celebrity pressure, public intrusion, emotional distress; style notes: tight framing on faces, high contrast lighting, crowd shots suggest chaos

A woman named Vicki is surrounded by a crowd in a dimly lit interior space; people are speaking to her, asking for an autograph and telling her to move on. Two men in suits appear to be managing the crowd around her.

“- Get away, can't you? - Come on, Vicki, let's see you. Vicki, will you sign my book for me? Like this is Norman May. Don't you care, Vicki, you get over it. Stand back, can't you? Don't you cry, dearie, he wasn't so much.” 103:17 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 1:43:13 (passage 1:43:10–1:43:30); US record: No renewal found

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