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A Star Is Born · Beat 309 · permalink

Private office

1:43:50–1:44:31 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:44:081:44:08Frame at 1:44:281:44:28

Play from 1:43:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 192 · shots 712–713. 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:2
People
  • woman with dark hair styled up, wearing dark clothing visible
  • Graves (named at t:104:26): older man with white hair, wearing formal dark suit and bow tie visible
  • man in dark suit, holding papers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman looks down at a document or surface. [frame:1]
  • A man hands papers to another man identified as Graves. [frame:2]
Also said
“Here are the paychecks for the servants, Graves.” 104:26 · “You'll find a very nice bonus in each one.” 104:28
Seen
{'item': 'papers or envelopes', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'dark formal suits', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, transactional; themes: class, employment, formal exchange; style notes: medium shots, dim interior lighting, formal attire, static framing

A woman in dark clothing is shown in close-up, followed by a scene with two men in formal attire exchanging papers in a dimly lit interior. One man is addressed as Graves and given paychecks with bonuses for servants.

“You mind if I...” 104:00 · “I know, I know.” 104:03 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 1:44:08 (passage 1:43:50–1:44:31); US record: No renewal found

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