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A Star Is Born · Beat 315 · permalink

Living room

1:47:00–1:47:19 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; 1 name 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 1:47:101:47:10

Play from 1:47:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 195 · shots 725–725. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Esther (named at t:107:18): elderly woman, wearing a dark hat and dark patterned coat with a brooch visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An elderly woman speaks while seated in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“I meant it.” 107:10 · “You know, Esther?” 107:18
Seen
dark hat, patterned coat, brooch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, confessional; themes: personal revelation, romantic memory, intergenerational dialogue; style notes: close-up framing, low-key lighting, static shot

An elderly woman in a dark hat and patterned coat speaks in a dimly lit interior. She references someone named Norman and a romantic note, addressing a person named Esther.

“I never knew Norman's name.” 107:02 · “romantic” 107:07 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 1:47:10 (passage 1:47:00–1:47:19); US record: No renewal found

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